Normal microRNA maturation and germ-line stem cell maintenance requires loquacious, a double-stranded RNA-binding domain protein

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1187-1201

  Förstemann, Klaus ^a   Tomari, Yukihide ^a   Du, Tingting ^a   Vagin, Vasily V ^b   Denli, Ahmet M ^c   Bratu, Diana P ^a   Klattenhoff, Carla ^a   Theurkauf, William E ^a   Zamore, Phillip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN LOQUACIOUS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; DCR 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DCR-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSHA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LOQUACIOUS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RNA HELICASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PROTEIN BINDING; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSGENE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 22744433240     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030236     Document Type: Article

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