Separation of stem cell maintenance and transposon silencing functions of Piwi protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 18760-18765

  Klenov, Mikhail S ^a   Sokolova, Olesya A ^a   Yakushev, Evgeny Y ^a   Stolyarenko, Anastasia D ^a   Mikhaleva, Elena A ^a   Lavrov, Sergey A ^a   Gvozdev, Vladimir A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Oogenesis; Short RNA

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEM CELL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OOGENESIS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 81755163590     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106676108     Document Type: Article

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