Importin α7 is essential for zygotic genome activation and early mouse development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Rother, Franziska ^a,c   Shmidt, Tatiana ^a   Popova, Elena ^a   Krivokharchenko, Alexander ^a   Hügel, Stefanie ^a   Vilianovich, Larissa ^a   Ridders, Michael ^a,d   Tenner, Katja ^a   Alenina, Natalia ^a   Köhler, Matthias ^b   Hartmann, Enno ^c   Bader, Michael ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; KPNA6 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; C57BL MOUSE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPLICATION; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; OVARY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

MUS;

ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; OOCYTES; OVARY; PARTHENOGENESIS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 79953172214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018310     Document Type: Article

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