PRG-1 and 21U-RNAs Interact to Form the piRNA Complex Required for Fertility in C. elegans

Molecular Cell

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-78

  Batista, Pedro J ^a,d   Ruby, J Graham ^b,e   Claycomb, Julie M ^a   Chiang, Rosaria ^b,e   Fahlgren, Noah ^f   Kasschau, Kristin D ^f   Chaves, Daniel A ^a   Gu, Weifeng ^a   Vasale, Jessica J ^a   Duan, Shenghua ^a   Conte Jr , Darryl ^a   Luo, Shujun ^g   Schroth, Gary P ^g   Carrington, James C ^f   Bartel, David P ^b,e   Mello, Craig C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^e WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; DNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; PIRNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PIWI RELATED ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRG1; RNA; RNA 21U;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL GRANULE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; P GRANULE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 46149114866     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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