Associations between PIWI proteins and TDRD1/MTR-1 are critical for integrated subcellular localization in murine male germ cells

Genes to Cells

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1155-1165

  Kojima, Kanako ^a   Kuramochi Miyagawa, Satomi ^a,b   Chuma, Shinichiro ^c   Tanaka, Takashi ^c   Nakatsuji, Norio ^c   Kimura, Tohru ^a   Nakano, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOUSE TUDOR REPEAT 1 PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TUDOR DONAIM CONTAINING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSFECTION;

MURINAE;

EID: 70349981885     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2009.01342.x     Document Type: Article

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