A Single Argonaute Gene Participates in Exogenous and Endogenous RNAi and Controls Cellular Functions in the Basal Fungus Mucor circinelloides

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Cervantes, María ^a   Vila, Ana ^a   Nicolás, Francisco E ^a,b   Moxon, Simon ^c   de Haro, Juan P ^a   Dalmay, Tamas ^c   Torres Martínez, Santiago ^a   Ruiz Vázquez, Rosa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGO 1 GENE; AGO 2 GENE; AGO 3 GENE; AGO GENE; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STARVATION; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; AUTOLYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCOR; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84880711484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069283     Document Type: Article

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