Lack of WDR36 leads to preimplantation embryonic lethality in mice and delays the formation of small subunit ribosomal RNA in human cells in vitro

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-435

  Gallenberger, Martin ^a   Meinel, Dominik M ^a,d   Kroeber, Markus ^a   Wegner, Michael ^b   Milkereit, Philipp ^a   Bösl, Michael R ^c   Tamm, Ernst R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1A; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOPHOSMIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53; PWP2 PROTEIN; RNA 18S; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOLUS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; UPREGULATION; WD REPEAT DOMAIN 36 GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, P53; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 78651097819     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq478     Document Type: Article

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