Argonaute-1 binds transcriptional enhancers and controls constitutive and alternative splicing in human cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 15622-15629

  Alló, Mariano ^a,e   Agirreb, Eneritz ^a,b,f,g   Bessonovc, Sergey ^a,c   Bertucci, Paola ^a   Acuña, Luciana Gómez ^a   Buggiano, Valeria ^a   Bellorab, Nicolás ^b,h   Singhb, Babita ^b   Petrillo, Ezequiel ^a   Blaustein, Matías ^a   Miñana, Belén ^b,d   Dujardin, Gwendal ^a   Pozzi, Berta ^a   Pelisch, Federico ^a   Bechara, Elías ^b,d   Agafonov, Dmitry E ^c   Srebrow, Anabella ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^c   Valcárcel, Juan ^b,d,e   Eyras, Eduardo ^b,e   Kornblihtt, Alberto R ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^h Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Argonaute proteins; Transcriptional enhancers

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; EIF2C1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INITIATION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNE2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84914674878     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416858111     Document Type: Article

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