PRMT1 methylates the single Argonaute of Toxoplasma gondii and is important for the recruitment of Tudor nuclease for target RNA cleavage by antisense guide RNA

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 882-901

  Musiyenko, Alla ^a   Majumdar, Tanmay ^b   Andrews, Joel ^a   Adams, Brian ^a   Barik, Sailen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE GUIDE RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; MAGNESIUM ION; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; NUCLEASE; PRMT1 PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; TUDOR STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RNA CLEAVAGE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA;

MAMMALIA; METAZOA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84861190886     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2012.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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