Loss of the Mili-interacting Tudor domain-containing protein-1 activates transposons and alters the Mili-associated small RNA profile

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 639-646

  Reuter, Michael ^a   Chuma, Shinichiro ^b   Tanaka, Takashi ^b   Franz, Thomas ^c   Stark, Alexander ^d   Pillai, Ramesh S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CELL PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN MILI; PROTEIN MIWI2; TUDOR DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSPOSON;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MALE; MICE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 67349141725     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1615     Document Type: Article

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