Assembly and function of small RNA-Argonaute protein complexes

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 395, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 611-629

  Dueck, Anne ^a   Meister, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argonaute proteins; gene silencing; microRNAs; RNAi; siRNAs; small RNAs

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; MICRORNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAGO PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DROSOPHILA; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MACRONUCLEUS; MEIOSIS; MICRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MICRORNAS; PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84899814038     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2014-0116     Document Type: Review

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