Elective affinities: A Tudor-Aubergine tale of germline partnership

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1963-1966

  Vourekas, Anastassios ^a   Kirino, Yohei ^a   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine methylation; Aubergine; Piwi; Structure; Tudor

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; AUBERGINE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CARRIER PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; PIWI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TUD PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AUBERGINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GERM CELL; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GERM CELLS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 77956792181     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1977010     Document Type: Review

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