Noncoding RNAs of the mammalian testis: The meiotic transcripts Nct1 and Nct2 Encode piRNAs

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1120, Issue , 2007, Pages 84-94

  Iguchi, Naoko ^a   Xu, Mingang ^a   Hori, Tamaki ^a   Hecht, Norman B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; gsRNAs; Male germ cells; Meiosis; Noncoding RNAs; piRNAs; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MSY2 PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 2; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NCT1 GENE; NCT2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 38049086763     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1411.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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