Argonaute 1 regulates the fate of germline stem cells in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 4265-4272

  Yang, Lele ^a   Chen, Dongsheng ^a,b   Duan, Ranhui ^c   Xia, Laixin ^a,b   Wang, Jun ^a   Qurashi, Abrar ^c   Jin, Peng ^c   Chen, Dahua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ago1; Argonaute protein; Drosophila; GSC self renewal; miRNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PIWI PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVARY; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 38349006273     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.009159     Document Type: Article

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