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SUBMITTER: Ryu I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3567085 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ryu Incheol I Park Ji Hoon JH An Sihyeon S Kwon Oh Sung OS Jang Sung Key SK
PloS one 20130207 2
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that mediate post-transcriptional gene silencing by binding to complementary target mRNAs and recruiting the miRNA-containing ribonucleoprotein complexes to the mRNAs. However, the molecular basis of this silencing is unclear. Here, we show that human Ago2 associates with the cap-binding protein complex and this association is mediated by human eIF4GI, a scaffold protein required for the translation initiation. Using a cap photo-crosslinking method, we ...[more]