Argonaute protein PIWI controls mobilization of retrotransposons in the Drosophila male germline

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2052-2059

  Kalmykova, Alla I ^a   Klenov, Mikhail S ^a,b   Gvozdev, Vladimir A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PIWI; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; INSECT GENETICS; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA; INSECTA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TESTIS;

EID: 17144417381     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki323     Document Type: Article

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