Artificial Tethering of Argonaute Proteins for Studying their Role in Translational Repression of Target mRNAs

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 725, Issue , 2011, Pages 191-206

  Eckhardt, Stephanie ^b   Szostak, Emilia ^b   Yang, Zhaolin ^b   Pillai, Ramesh ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Argonaute; BoxB; miRNA; N peptide; Tethering; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 80051573388     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-046-1_13     Document Type: Chapter

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