Piwi and piRNAs Act Upstream of an Endogenous siRNA Pathway to Suppress Tc3 Transposon Mobility in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline

Molecular Cell

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-90

  Das, Partha P ^a,b,c   Bagijn, Marloes P ^a,b   Goldstein, Leonard D ^b,d,f   Woolford, Julie R ^a,b   Lehrbach, Nicolas J ^a,b   Sapetschnig, Alexandra ^a,b   Buhecha, Heeran R ^a,b   Gilchrist, Michael J ^a   Howe, Kevin L ^d   Stark, Rory ^d   Matthews, Nik ^d   Berezikov, Eugene ^e   Ketting, René F ^e   Tavaré, Simon ^b,d,f   Miska, Eric A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Anthropologie und Entwicklungsbiologie   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^e HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; RNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PIRNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN DCR 1; PROTEIN TC3; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PING PONG MODEL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, HELMINTH; GERM CELLS; MALE; PROTEINS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSPOSASES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; MUS;

EID: 46149092009     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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