Gene silencing mechanisms mediated by Aubergine-piRNA complexes in Drosophila male gonad

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1911-1922

  Nishida, Kazumichi M ^a   Saito, Kuniaki ^a   Mori, Tomoko ^a   Kawamura, Yoshinori ^a   Nagami Okada, Tomoko ^a   Inagaki, Sachi ^a   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aubergine; Germlines; piRNA; RNA silencing; Stellate

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STEM CELL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TESTIS;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 35548991887     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.744307     Document Type: Article

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