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ORGANISM(S): Thermus thermophilus HB8
SUBMITTER: daan swarts
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-52738 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Swarts Daan C DC Jore Matthijs M MM Westra Edze R ER Zhu Yifan Y Janssen Jorijn H JH Snijders Ambrosius P AP Wang Yanli Y Patel Dinshaw J DJ Berenguer José J Brouns Stan J J SJJ van der Oost John J
Nature 20140216 7491
RNA interference is widely distributed in eukaryotes and has a variety of functions, including antiviral defence and gene regulation. All RNA interference pathways use small single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) molecules that guide proteins of the Argonaute (Ago) family to complementary ssRNA targets: RNA-guided RNA interference. The role of prokaryotic Ago variants has remained elusive, although bioinformatics analysis has suggested their involvement in host defence. Here we demonstrate that Ago of the ...[more]