Demystifying the nuclear function of Argonaute proteins

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-24

  Huang, Vera ^a   Li, Long Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Argonaute proteins; Cancer; Histone modifications; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 4 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 8; CLADISTICS; CROSS LINKING; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LETHALITY; MAMMAL CELL; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CANCER; HISTONE MODIFICATIONS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84894489246     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.27604     Document Type: Review

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