Xtr, a plural tudor domain-containing protein, coexists with FRGY2 both in cytoplasmic mRNP particle and germ plasm in Xenopus embryo: Its possible role in translational regulation of maternal mRNAs

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 595-605

  Golam Mostafa, Md ^a   Sugimoto, Tetsuharu ^a   Hiyoshi, Masateru ^a   Kawasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Kubo, Hideo ^c   Matsumoto, Ken ^d,e   Abe, Shin Ichi ^a   Takamune, Kazufumi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FRGY2; Messenger ribonucleoprotein; Tudor domain; Xenopus; Xtr

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FRGY2; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; GEL FILTRATION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TUDOR REPEAT GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 68549117074     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01121.x     Document Type: Article

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