Metazoan oocyte and early embryo development program: A progression through translation regulatory cascades

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 138-146

  Vasudevan, Shobha ^a   Seli, Emre ^a   Steitz, Joan A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METAZOON; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; OOCYTES; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEINS; POLYADENYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

METAZOA;

EID: 30944438077     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1398906     Document Type: Review

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