The Cutoff protein regulates piRNA cluster expression and piRNA production in the Drosophila germline

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4601-4615

  Pane, Attilio ^a   Jiang, Peng ^b   Zhao, Dorothy Yanling ^a   Singh, Mona ^b   Schüpbach, Trudi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

cutoff; Drosophila; germline; heterochromatin; piRNA

Indexed keywords

CUTOFF PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN RAI1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 81255137997     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.334     Document Type: Article

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