Import routes and nuclear functions of Argonaute and other small RNA-silencing proteins

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 420-431

  Schraivogel, Daniel ^a   Meister, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argonaute proteins; Gene silencing; MicroRNAs; Nuclear RNAi; RNAe; SiRNAs

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA ELIMINATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; BIOGENESIS; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84906938579     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2014.07.004     Document Type: Review

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