Roles for the Yb body components Armitage and Yb in primary piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2493-2498

  Saito, Kuniaki ^a   Ishizu, Hirotsugu ^a   Komai, Miharu ^a   Kotani, Hazuki ^a   Kawamura, Yoshinori ^a   Nishida, Kazumichi M ^a   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Armitage; Drosophila; Piwi; Primary piRNA; Yb; Zucchini

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARMITAGE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSPOSON; YB BODY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA HELICASES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO;

EID: 78149478349     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1989510     Document Type: Article

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