The endonuclease activity of Mili fuels piRNA amplification that silences LINE1 elements

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7376, 2011, Pages 259-263

  De Fazio, Serena ^a   Bartonicek, Nenad ^b   Di Giacomo, Monica ^a   Abreu Goodger, Cei ^b   Sankar, Aditya ^a   Funaya, Charlotta ^c   Antony, Claude ^c   Moreira, Pedro N ^a   Enright, Anton J ^b   O'carroll, Dónal ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN MILI; PROTEIN MIWI2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOENGINEERING; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERTILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA; RODENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; GENE SILENCING; GONAD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE SILENCING; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; MICE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 83055180736     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10547     Document Type: Article

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