Mmi1 RNA surveillance machinery directs RNAi complex RITS to specific meiotic genes in fission yeast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2296-2308

  Hiriart, Edwige ^a   Vavasseur, Aurélia ^a   Touat Todeschini, Leila ^a   Yamashita, Akira ^b   Gilquin, Benoit ^a   Lambert, Emeline ^a   Perot, Jonathan ^a   Shichino, Yuichi ^b   Nazaret, Nicolas ^c   Boyault, Cyril ^a   Lachuer, Joel ^c,d   Perazza, Daniel ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^b,e   Verdel, André ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN CANCÉROLOGIE DE LYON   (France)

^e KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mmi1; RITS; RNAi; S. pombe; sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN MMI1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84861186930     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.105     Document Type: Article

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