Mili and Miwi target RNA repertoire reveals piRNA biogenesis and function of Miwi in spermiogenesis

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 773-781

  Vourekas, Anastassios ^a   Zheng, Qi ^b   Alexiou, Panagiotis ^a   Maragkakis, Manolis ^a   Kirino, Yohei ^c   Gregory, Brian D ^b   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN MILI; PROTEIN MIWI; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84864643089     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2347     Document Type: Article

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