RNA granules in germ cells

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Voronina, Ekaterina ^a   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a   Sassone Corsi, Paolo ^b   Nagamori, Ippei ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GRANULE; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DROSOPHILA; GERM CELLS; MITOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 84863945534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002774     Document Type: Review

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