A novel class of small RNAs bind to MILI protein in mouse testes

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7099, 2006, Pages 203-207

  Aravin, Alexei ^a,h   Gaidatzis, Dimos ^b   Pfeffer, Sébastien ^a,i   Lagos Quintana, Mariana ^a   Landgraf, Pablo ^a   Iovino, Nicola ^a   Morris, Patricia ^a   Brownstein, Michael J ^c   Kuramochi Miyagawa, Satomi ^d   Nakano, Toru ^d   Chien, Minchen ^e   Russo, James J ^e   Ju, Jingyue ^e,f   Sheridan, Robert ^g   Sander, Chris ^g   Zavolan, Mihaela ^b   Tuschl, Thomas ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^f Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

ⁱ INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CLONING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; RNA;

GERM CELLS; MEIOSIS; MICRORNAS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MICRORNA; MILI PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME; GERM CELL; PROTEIN; RNA; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745402414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04916     Document Type: Article

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