Arginine methylation of aubergine mediates tudor binding and germ plasm localization

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-78

  Kirino, Yohei ^a   Vourekas, Anastassios ^a   Sayed, Nabil ^a   De Lima Alves, Flavia ^b   Thomson, Travis ^c   Lasko, Paul ^c   Rappsilber, Juri ^b   Jongens, Thomas A ^a   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Aubergine; miRNA; piRNA; Piwi; Tudor

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; AUBERGINE PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA HOMOLOG OF PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE 5; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIWI PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TUDOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUBERGINE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CARRIER PROTEIN; DART5 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; TUD PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; DROSOPHILA; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSPOSON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GERM CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 75649132891     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1869710     Document Type: Article

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