PPW-1, a PAZ/PIWI protein required for efficient germline RNAi, is defective in a natural isolate of C. elegans

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1535-1540

  Tijsterman, Marcel ^a   Okihara, Kristy L ^a   Thijssen, Karen ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EATING; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EATING; ENGLAND; GENE SILENCING; GENES, HELMINTH; HAWAII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037015303     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01110-7     Document Type: Article

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