Prokaryotic argonaute proteins: Novel genome-editing tools?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 5-11

  Hegge, Jorrit W ^a   Swarts, Daan C ^b   Van Der Oost, John ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PIWI PROTEIN; PROKARYOTIC ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; GENE EDITING; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA; GENE EDITING; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 85038256190     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.73     Document Type: Article

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