Importin 8 is a gene silencing factor that targets argonaute proteins to distinct mRNAs.

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Published in Cell on January 22, 2009

Authors

Lasse Weinmann1, Julia Höck, Tomi Ivacevic, Thomas Ohrt, Jörg Mütze, Petra Schwille, Elisabeth Kremmer, Vladimir Benes, Henning Urlaub, Gunter Meister

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1: Laboratory of RNA Biology and Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.

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