How selfish retrotransposons are silenced in Drosophila germline and somatic cells

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2473-2478

  Siomi, Mikiko C ^a,b   Saito, Kuniaki ^a   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Drosophila; piRNA; Retrotransposon; RNA silencing; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AUBERGINE; BIOGENESIS; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; GERM LINE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RETROPOSON; SHELLFISH; SHORT SURVEY; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 46749123801     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.06.018     Document Type: Short Survey

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