Protein argonaute-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2C2gene.[1][2][3]
This gene encodes a member of the Argonaute family of proteins which play a role in RNA interference. The encoded protein is highly basic, and contains a PAZ domain and a PIWI domain. It may interact with Dicer1 and play a role in short-interfering-RNA-mediated gene silencing.[3]
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↑Doi N, Zenno S, Ueda R, Ohki-Hamazaki H, Ui-Tei K, Saigo K (January 2003). "Short-interfering-RNA-mediated gene silencing in mammalian cells requires Dicer and eIF2C translation initiation factors". Curr. Biol. 13 (1): 41–6. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01394-5. PMID12526743.
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↑Till S, Lejeune E, Thermann R, Bortfeld M, Hothorn M, Enderle D, Heinrich C, Hentze MW, Ladurner AG (October 2007). "A conserved motif in Argonaute-interacting proteins mediates functional interactions through the Argonaute PIWI domain". Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 14 (10): 897–903. doi:10.1038/nsmb1302. PMID17891150.
Further reading
Carmell MA, Xuan Z, Zhang MQ, Hannon GJ (2002). "The Argonaute family: tentacles that reach into RNAi, developmental control, stem cell maintenance, and tumorigenesis". Genes Dev. 16 (21): 2733–42. doi:10.1101/gad.1026102. PMID12414724.
Liu J, Carmell MA, Rivas FV, et al. (2004). "Argonaute2 is the catalytic engine of mammalian RNAi". Science. 305 (5689): 1437–41. doi:10.1126/science.1102513. PMID15284456.
Rivas FV, Tolia NH, Song JJ, et al. (2005). "Purified Argonaute2 and an siRNA form recombinant human RISC". Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 12 (4): 340–9. doi:10.1038/nsmb918. PMID15800637.
Sen GL, Blau HM (2005). "Argonaute 2/RISC resides in sites of mammalian mRNA decay known as cytoplasmic bodies". Nat. Cell Biol. 7 (6): 633–6. doi:10.1038/ncb1265. PMID15908945.
Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID16189514.