Publication Date:
2017-02-09
Description:
An Argonaute phosphorylation cycle promotes microRNA-mediated silencing Nature 542, 7640 (2017). doi:10.1038/nature21025 Authors: Ryan J. Golden, Beibei Chen, Tuo Li, Juliane Braun, Hema Manjunath, Xiang Chen, Jiaxi Wu, Vanessa Schmid, Tsung-Cheng Chang, Florian Kopp, Andres Ramirez-Martinez, Vincent S. Tagliabracci, Zhijian J. Chen, Yang Xie & Joshua T. Mendell MicroRNAs (miRNAs) perform critical functions in normal physiology and disease by associating with Argonaute proteins and downregulating partially complementary messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Here we use clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) genome-wide loss-of-function screening coupled with a fluorescent reporter
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics