When an egg is not an egg: Compromised maternal mRNA storage and stabilization

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 429-430

  Conti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; MSY2 PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; CUMULUS CELL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STORAGE; RNA TRANSLATION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; RNA STABILITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80052553105     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094102     Document Type: Note

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