Two new and distinct roles for Drosophila Argonaute-2 in the nucleus: Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and transcriptional repression

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 378-389

  Taliaferro, J Matthew ^a   Aspden, Julie L ^a   Bradley, Todd ^b,c   Marwha, Dhruv ^a   Blanchette, Marco ^b,c   Rio, Donald C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Argonaute; Drosophila; RNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84874279332     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.210708.112     Document Type: Article

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