26G endo-siRNAs regulate spermatogenic and zygotic gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18674-18679

  Han, Ting ^a   Manoharan, Arun Prasad ^a   Harkins, Tim T ^b   Bouffard, Pascal ^c   Fitzpatrick, Colin ^d   Chu, Diana S ^d   Thierry Mieg, Danielle ^e   Thierry Miege, Jean ^e   Kim, John K ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Roche Applied Science   (United States)

^c A Roche Company   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous siRNA; Germline; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EXORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; GUANINE; MALE; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; ZYGOTE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 73249136094     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906378106     Document Type: Article

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