Multiple roles for Piwi in silencing Drosophila transposons

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 400-412

  Rozhkov, Nikolay V ^a,b   Hammell, Molly ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a,b  

^a WATSON SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Nascent; piRNA; Steady state; Transposon

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; STEADY STATE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; OVARY; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84874240831     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.209767.112     Document Type: Article

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