One Argonaute family member, Eif2c2 (Ago2), is essential for development and appears not to be involved in DNA methylation

Genomics

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 687-696

  Morita, Sumiyo ^a,b   Horii, Takuro ^a   Kimura, Mika ^a,b   Goto, Yuji ^c   Ochiya, Takahiro ^d   Hatada, Izuho ^a,b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Horizontal Medical Research Organization   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Dicer; Eif2c2; MicroRNA; Mouse; RNAi

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN EIF 2 C 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, SATELLITE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PREGNANCY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34248156225     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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