"Argonaute Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A family of RNA-binding proteins that has specificity for MICRORNAS and SMALL INTERFERING RNA molecules. The proteins take part in RNA processing events as core components of RNA-induced silencing complex.
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D060565
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D08.811.277.352.355.350.810.500 D08.811.277.352.700.350.810.500 D12.776.157.725.500.906.500 D12.776.664.962.500.906.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Argonaute Proteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Argonaute Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2012 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Argonaute Proteins" by people in Profiles.
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Rice NP, Ho S, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Rapid disassembly and Piwi-independent reassembly of Drosophila piRNA cluster heterochromatin following acute heat shock. RNA. 2026 02 17; 32(3):359-378.
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Vega-Badillo J, Zamore PD, Jouravleva K. Biochemical principles of miRNA targeting in flies. Nat Commun. 2026 Jan 20; 17(1):1641.
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Neophytou K, Mart?nez-Ugalde I, Fenton TM, Robertson E, Strachan LJ, Jayaraman V, Harcus Y, Naar CM, Wright D, Price DRG, White R, Evans MJ, Berm?dez-Barrientos JR, Li H, Maizels RM, Aroian RV, Nisbet AJ, Abreu-Goodger C, Buck AH. An Argonaute protein traffics from nematode to mouse and is a vaccine against parasitic nematodes. EMBO Rep. 2026 01; 27(2):311-340.
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Kawasaki T, Nishimura T, Tani N, Ramos C, Karaulanov E, Shinya M, Saito K, Taylor E, Ketting RF, Ishiguro KI, Tanaka M, Siegfried KR, Sakai N. Meioc-Piwil1 complexes regulate rRNA transcription for differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells. Elife. 2025 Jul 24; 14.
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Abajorga M, Yurkovetskiy L, Luban J. piRNA Defense Against Endogenous Retroviruses. Viruses. 2024 11 09; 16(11).
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Wang C, Shen Z, Yang XY, Fu TM. Structures and functions of short argonautes. RNA Biol. 2024 01; 21(1):1-7.
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Ambros V. MicroRNA-mediated gene regulation and the resilience of multicellular animals. Postepy Biochem. 2024 05 23; 70(1):62-70.
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Zhang G, Zheng C, Ding YH, Mello C. Casein kinase II promotes piRNA production through direct phosphorylation of USTC component TOFU-4. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 28; 15(1):2727.
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Duan Y, Li L, Panzade GP, Piton A, Zinovyeva A, Ambros V. Modeling neurodevelopmental disorder-associated human AGO1 mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans Argonaute alg-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Mar 05; 121(10):e2308255121.
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Venkei ZG, Gainetdinov I, Bagci A, Starostik MR, Choi CP, Fingerhut JM, Chen P, Balsara C, Whitfield TW, Bell GW, Feng S, Jacobsen SE, Aravin AA, Kim JK, Zamore PD, Yamashita YM. A maternally programmed intergenerational mechanism enables male offspring to make piRNAs from Y-linked precursor RNAs in Drosophila. Nat Cell Biol. 2023 10; 25(10):1495-1505.