Identification and characterization of Argonaute protein, Ago2 and its associated small RNAs in Schistosoma japonicum

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Cai, Pengfei ^a   Piao, Xianyu ^a   Hou, Nan ^a   Liu, Shuai ^a   Wang, Heng ^b   Chen, Qijun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOGEN BIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; RABBITS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 84864592497     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001745     Document Type: Article

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