The evolutionary journey of Argonaute proteins.

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Published in Nat Struct Mol Biol on September 01, 2014

Authors

Daan C Swarts1, Kira Makarova2, Yanli Wang3, Kotaro Nakanishi4, René F Ketting5, Eugene V Koonin2, Dinshaw J Patel6, John van der Oost1

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
2: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
3: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
4: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
5: Institute for Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany.
6: Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.

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