Opposing roles of microRNA Argonautes during Caenorhabditis elegans aging. by Antti P Aalto, Ian A Nicastro, James P Broughton, Laura B Chipman, William P Schreiner, Jerry S Chen, Amy E Pasquinelli

“…Argonaute (AGO) proteins partner with microRNAs (miRNAs) to target specific genes for post-transcriptional regulation. …”
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Annalee Saxenian : The New Argonauts, regional advantage in a global economy by Yves Boquet

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Sons and fathers in the catalogue of Argonauts in Apollonius Argonautica 1.23-233 by Annette Harder

“… In this article the catalogue of Argonauts in the Argonautica of Apollonius is analyzed from the point of view of the sequence of generations and notions of progress and degeneration connected with that. …”
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AGO unchained: Canonical and non-canonical roles of Argonaute proteins in mammals by Laura Sala, Srividya Chandrasekhar, Joana A. Vidigal

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On the role of some ARGONAUTE proteins in meiosis and DNA repair in Arabidopsis thaliana by Cecilia eOliver, Juan Luis Santos, Mónica ePradillo

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Mechanistic Insights into Archaeal and Human Argonaute Substrate Binding and Cleavage Properties. by Sarah Willkomm, Adrian Zander, Dina Grohmann, Tobias Restle

“…Argonaute (Ago) proteins from all three domains of life are key players in processes that specifically regulate cellular nucleic acid levels. …”
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Quantifying Argonaute 2 (Ago2) expression to stratify breast cancer by M.C. Casey, A. Prakash, E. Holian, A. McGuire, O. Kalinina, A. Shalaby, C. Curran, M. Webber, G. Callagy, E. Bourke, M. J. Kerin, J. A. Brown

“…Abstract Background Argonaute-2 (Ago2) is an essential component of microRNA biogenesis implicated in tumourigenesis. …”
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Eukaryote-Specific Insertion Elements Control Human ARGONAUTE Slicer Activity by Kotaro Nakanishi, Manuel Ascano, Tasos Gogakos, Satoko Ishibe-Murakami, Artem A. Serganov, Daniel Briskin, Pavel Morozov, Thomas Tuschl, Dinshaw J. Patel

“…We have solved the crystal structure of human ARGONAUTE1 (hAGO1) bound to endogenous 5′-phosphorylated guide RNAs. …”
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Imaging translational control by Argonaute with single-molecule resolution in live cells by Charlotte A. Cialek, Gabriel Galindo, Tatsuya Morisaki, Ning Zhao, Taiowa A. Montgomery, Timothy J. Stasevich

“…Guided by miRNA, Argonaute proteins silence mRNA in multiple ways that are not well understood. …”
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The Varied Roles of Nuclear Argonaute-Small RNA Complexes and Avenues for Therapy by Jason P Ross, Zena Kassir

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The N-terminal extension of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE 1 is essential for microRNA activities. by Ye Xu, Yong Zhang, Zhenfang Li, Alyssa K Soloria, Savannah Potter, Xuemei Chen

“…microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate target gene expression through their ARGONAUTE (AGO) effector protein, mainly AGO1 in Arabidopsis thaliana. …”
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Expression of human ARGONAUTE 2 inhibits endogenous microRNA activity in Arabidopsis by Ira eDeveson, Junyan eLi, Anthony eMillar

“…Plant and animal microRNA (miRNA) pathways share many analogous components, the ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins being foremost among them. …”
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Argonaute2 and LaminB modulate gene expression by controlling chromatin topology. by Ezequiel Nazer, Ryan K Dale, Madoka Chinen, Behram Radmanesh, Elissa P Lei

“…Drosophila Argonaute2 (AGO2) has been shown to regulate expression of certain loci in an RNA interference (RNAi)-independent manner, but its genome-wide function on chromatin remains unknown. …”
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A Hyperthermophilic Argonaute From Ferroglobus placidus With Specificity on Guide Binding Pattern by Xiang Guo, Yingying Sun, Liuqing Chen, Fei Huang, Qian Liu, Yan Feng

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DICER-ARGONAUTE2 complex in continuous fluorogenic assays of RNA interference enzymes. by Mark A Bernard, Leyu Wang, Souvenir D Tachado

“…This study lays the foundation of a systematic biochemical approach to optimize nucleic acid-based therapeutics for Dicing and ARGONAUTE2-loading for improving efficacy.…”
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Characterization of Argonaute nucleases from mesophilic bacteria Paenibacillus borealis and Brevibacillus laterosporus by Huarong Dong, Fei Huang, Xiang Guo, Xiaoyi Xu, Qian Liu, Xiao Li, Yan Feng

Subjects: “…Mesophilic Argonaute protein…”
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Polymorphisms and expression of genes encoding Argonautes 1 and 2 in autoimmune thyroid diseases by Ena Tokiyoshi, Mikio Watanabe, Naoya Inoue, Yoh Hidaka, Yoshinori Iwatani

“…The microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis pathway is regulated by specific proteins and enzymes, including Dicer, Drosha, DGCR8, Exportin 5 and the Argonaute (AGO) family. In this study, we investigated the AGO family, which is the primary component of RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) and directly binds to microRNA. …”
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Single-stranded binding proteins and helicase enhance the activity of prokaryotic argonautes in vitro. by Eric A Hunt, Thomas C Evans, Nathan A Tanner

“…Prokaryotic argonautes are a unique class of nucleic acid-guided endonucleases putatively involved in cellular defense against foreign genetic elements. …”
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An essential role for Argonaute 2 in EGFR-KRAS signaling in pancreatic cancer development by Sunita Shankar, Jean Ching-Yi Tien, Ronald F. Siebenaler, Seema Chugh, Vijaya L. Dommeti, Sylvia Zelenka-Wang, Xiao-Ming Wang, Ingrid J. Apel, Jessica Waninger, Sanjana Eyunni, Alice Xu, Malay Mody, Andrew Goodrum, Yuping Zhang, John J. Tesmer, Rahul Mannan, Xuhong Cao, Pankaj Vats, Sethuramasundaram Pitchiaya, Stephanie J. Ellison, Jiaqi Shi, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, Howard C. Crawford, Arul M. Chinnaiyan

“…Argonaute 2 (AGO2) binds RAS and is required for cellular transformation. …”
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Statistical use of argonaute expression and RISC assembly in microRNA target identification. by Stephen A Stanhope, Srikumar Sengupta, Johan den Boon, Paul Ahlquist, Michael A Newton

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