A Seed Mismatch Enhances Argonaute2-Catalyzed Cleavage and Partially Rescues Severely Impaired Cleavage Found in Fish

The RNAi pathway provides both innate immunity and efficient gene-knockdown tools in many eukaryotic species, but curiously not in zebrafish. We discovered that RNAi is less effective in zebrafish at least partly because Argonaute2-catalyzed mRNA slicing is impaired. This defect is due to two mutati...

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Main Authors: Chen, Grace, Bartel, David, Sive, Hazel L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120144
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-1696
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4890-424X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-2856