Blanks, a nuclear siRNA/dsRNA-binding complex component, is required for Drosophila spermiogenesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3204-3209

  Gerbasi, Vincent R ^a   Preall, Jonathan B ^a,c   Golden, Daniel E ^a,d   Powell, David W ^b   Cummins, Timothy D ^b   Sontheimer, Erik J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLANKS PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79952755165     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009781108     Document Type: Article

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