Combinatorial RNA interference indicates GLH-4 can compensate for GLH-1; These two P granule components are critical for fertility in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2907-2916

  Kuznicki, Kathleen A ^a   Smith, Pliny A ^a   Leung Chiu, W M Alexandra ^a   Estevez, Annette O ^a,c   Scott, Heather C ^a,d   Bennett, Karen L ^a,b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BASTYR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCHC zinc fingers; Combinatorial RNA mediated interference; Germ granules; Glycine rich repeats; RNA helicases

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; RNA; RNA HELICASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL GRANULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RNA; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033931850     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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