Mouse MAELSTROM: The link between meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin and microRNA pathway?

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2324-2334

  Costa, Yael ^a   Speed, Robert M ^a   Gautier, Philippe ^a   Semple, Colin A ^a   Maratou, Klio ^a,c   Turner, James M A ^b   Cooke, Howard J ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; MAELSTROM PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN INI1; PROTEIN MILI; PROTEIN MIWI; PROTEIN MVH; PROTEIN SIN3B; PROTEIN SNF5; PROTEIN SWI; RNA HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EMBRYO; FETUS; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMATIN; Y CHROMATIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX CHROMATIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33747877558     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl158     Document Type: Article

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