Argonaute Proteins

Purification of Native Argonaute Complexes from the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.- Chromatin Immuno-Precipitation in Fission Yeast.- Biochemical Analyses of Endogenous Argonaute Complexes Immunopurified with Anti-Argonaute Monoclonal Antibodies.- Mapping of Ago2-GW182 Functional Interactions.- Continuous Density Gradients to Study Argonaute and GW182 Complexes Associated with the Endocytic Pathway.- In vitro RISC Cleavage Assay.- Native Gel Analysis for RISC Assembly.- Purification and Assembly of Human Argonaute, Dicer, and TRBP Complexes.- Detection of Human Dicer and Argonaute 2 Catalytic Activity.- Imaging the Cellular Dynamics of Drosophila Argonaute Proteins.- Live Cell Imaging of Argonaute Proteins in Mammalian Cells.- Reporter-Based Assays for Analyzing RNA Interference in Mammalian Cells.- Artificial Tethering of Argonaute Proteins for Studying their Role in Translational Repression of Target mRNAs.- An Efficient System For Let-7 MicroRNA- And GW182 Protein-Mediated Deadenylation In vitro.- Cell-Free microRNA-Mediated Translation Repression in C. elegans.- Argonaute Pull-Down and RISC Analysis Using 2'-O-Methylated Oligonucleotides Affinity Matrices.- Cloning Argonaute-Associated Small RNAs from C. elegans.- Immunoprecipitation of piRNPs and Directional, Next Generation Sequencing of piRNAs.- Generation of an Inducible Mouse ES Cell Line Deficient for Argonaute Proteins.- Whole Cell Proteome Regulation by microRNAs Captured in a Pulsed SILAC Mass Spectrometry Approach.

From the reviews:"It can be fully appreciated the high quality of the book, the so well organized and sequentially logic presentation of the chapters. ... giving a very update and detailed presentation of the entire Argonaute family members, their evolutionary conservation in Eukaryotes, mechanisms of action, methods to study in vitro and in vivo ... . each biologist and physician, either involved in research or in clinical application will find irreplaceable this book. Hope the reader will get his own copy of this exciting book." (Manuela Monti, European Journal of Histochemistry, July, 2011)