Chapter title |
Kinetic Analysis of Target RNA Binding and Slicing by Human Argonaute 2 Protein.
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Chapter number | 19 |
Book title |
Drug Target miRNA
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6563-2_19 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6561-8, 978-1-4939-6563-2
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Authors |
Sarah Willkomm, Tobias Restle |
Editors |
Marco F. Schmidt |
Abstract |
Analyzing the mechanisms of Argonaute-mediated gene silencing is essential to the understanding of RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a process to regulate gene expression on a posttranscriptional level. Directed by single-stranded small RNA guides, Argonaute 2 binds complementary target RNAs, and if the guide displays full complementarity to the targeted sequence, Argonaute 2 slices the bound target RNA. This on the one hand is an important mechanism to regulate gene expression in the cell and on the other hand represents a powerful tool to interfere with harmful gene expression levels. Here, we present techniques to kinetically characterize recombinant Argonaute 2-mediated guide and target binding as well as target RNA slicing. We focus on fluorescence-based steady-state and in particular pre-steady-state techniques to unravel mechanistic details. Furthermore, we describe a cleavage assay to analyze Argonaute 2-mediated slicing using radioactively labeled target strands. |
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