Extremely stable Piwi-induced gene silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3422-3430

  Luteijn, Maartje J ^a   Van Bergeijk, Petra ^a,b   Kaaij, Lucas J T ^a   Almeida, Miguel Vasconcelos ^a   Roovers, Elke F ^a   Berezikov, Eugene ^a   Ketting, René F ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chromatin; elegans; piRNA; Piwi; RNAi

Indexed keywords

PIWI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84865238298     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.213     Document Type: Article

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