Gatekeepers for Piwi-piRNA complexes to enter the nucleus

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 484-490

  Ishizu, Hirotsugu ^a   Nagao, Akihiro ^a   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; AUBERGINE PROTIEN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DICER; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; INSECT GENOME; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 79960924791     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

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