Perinuclear P granules are the principal sites of mRNA export in adult C. elegans germ cells

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1305-1314

  Sheth, Ujwal ^a,b   Pitt, Jason ^a,b   Dennis, Shannon ^a,b,c   Priess, James R ^a,b,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

C. Elegans; Export; mRNA; P granules

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEIN; NXF 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; NXF-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRUCTURE; GERM CELL; GRANULE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSLATION; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; HERMAPHRODITISM; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GERM CELLS; HERMAPHRODITISM; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OOCYTES; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 77951229432     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.044255     Document Type: Article

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