The PIWI proteins SMEDWI-2 and SMEDWI-3 are required for stem cell function and piRNA expression in planarians

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1174-1186

  Palakodeti, Dasaradhi ^a   Smielewska, Magda ^a   Lu, Yi Chien ^a   Yeo, Gene W ^b   Graveley, Brenton R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

piRNAs; PIWI proteins; Planarians; Small RNAs; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA; SMEDWI 2 PROTEIN; SMEDWI 3 PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL REGENERATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GERM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STEM CELLS;

HEXAPODA; METAZOA; PLANARIA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44149127238     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1085008     Document Type: Article

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