A novel organelle, the piNG-body, in the nuage of Drosophila male germ cells is associated with piRNA-mediated gene silencing

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3410-3419

  Kibanov, Mikhail V ^a   Egorova, Ksenia S ^a   Ryazansky, Sergei S ^a   Sokolova, Olesia A ^a   Kotov, Alexei A ^a,b   Olenkina, Oxana M ^a   Stolyarenko, Anastasia D ^a   Gvozdev, Vladimir A ^a   Olenina, Ludmila V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL ORGANELLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIRNA NUAGE GIANT BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARGININE; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; ORGANELLE SIZE; ORGANELLES; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TESTIS;

EID: 80052858057     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E11-02-0168     Document Type: Article

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