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DICER1
Introduction
Dicer1, Dcr-1 homolog (Drosophila), also known as DICER1, is a human gene.[1] It is present in many organisms, as Dicer.
This gene encodes a protein possessing an RNA helicase motif containing a DEXH box in its amino terminus and an RNA motif in the carboxy terminus. The encoded protein functions as a ribonuclease and is required by the RNA interference and small temporal RNA (stRNA) pathways to produce the active small RNA component that represses gene expression. Two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been identified for this gene.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
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- Provost P, Dishart D, Doucet J; et al. (2002). “Ribonuclease activity and RNA binding of recombinant human Dicer”. EMBO J. 21 (21): 5864–74. PMID 12411504.
- Zhang H, Kolb FA, Brondani V; et al. (2002). “Human Dicer preferentially cleaves dsRNAs at their termini without a requirement for ATP”. EMBO J. 21 (21): 5875–85. PMID 12411505.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.
- Doi N, Zenno S, Ueda R; et al. (2003). “Short-interfering-RNA-mediated gene silencing in mammalian cells requires Dicer and eIF2C translation initiation factors”. Curr. Biol. 13 (1): 41–6. PMID 12526743.
- Kawasaki H, Taira K (2003). “Short hairpin type of dsRNAs that are controlled by tRNA(Val) promoter significantly induce RNAi-mediated gene silencing in the cytoplasm of human cells”. Nucleic Acids Res. 31 (2): 700–7. PMID 12527779.
- Kawasaki H, Suyama E, Iyo M, Taira K (2003). “siRNAs generated by recombinant human Dicer induce specific and significant but target site-independent gene silencing in human cells”. Nucleic Acids Res. 31 (3): 981–7. PMID 12560494.
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- Handa V, Saha T, Usdin K (2003). “The fragile X syndrome repeats form RNA hairpins that do not activate the interferon-inducible protein kinase, PKR, but are cut by Dicer”. Nucleic Acids Res. 31 (21): 6243–8. PMID 14576312.
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- Zhang H, Kolb FA, Jaskiewicz L; et al. (2004). “Single processing center models for human Dicer and bacterial RNase III”. Cell. 118 (1): 57–68. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.06.017. PMID 15242644.