An in vivo RNAi assay identifies major genetic and cellular requirements for primary piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila

EMBO Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 3301-3317

  Olivieri, Daniel ^a   Sykora, Martina M ^a   Sachidanandam, Ravi ^b   Mechtler, Karl ^a,c   Brennecke, Julius ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drosophila; piRNA pathway; Piwi; transposon silencing

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA HELICASE; RNA HELICASE ARMI; RNA HELICASE YB; RNA HELICASE ZUC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARMI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; PRIMER DNA; RIBONUCLEASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSPOSON; ZUCCHINI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM LINE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LUCIFERASES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO;

EID: 77957793321     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.212     Document Type: Article

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