Chromatin and RNAi factors protect the C. elegans germline against repetitive sequences

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 782-787

  Robert, Valérie J P ^a,b   Sijen, Titia ^a   Van Wolfswinkel, Josien ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cosuppression; Heterochromatin; Repetitive sequences; RNAi; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 17044417320     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.332305     Document Type: Article

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