A systematic analysis of Drosophila TUDOR domain-containing proteins identifies Vreteno and the Tdrd12 family as essential primary piRNA pathway factors

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3977-3993

  Handler, Dominik ^a   Olivieri, Daniel ^a   Novatchkova, Maria ^a,b   Gruber, Franz Sebastian ^a   Meixner, Katharina ^a   Mechtler, Karl ^a,b   Stark, Alexander ^b   Sachidanandam, Ravi ^c   Brennecke, Julius ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CG11133 PROTEIN; CG14303 PROTEIN; CG31755 PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; TUDOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VRETENO PROTEIN; Y BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SOMATIC CELL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OVARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO;

EID: 84860389782     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.308     Document Type: Article

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