The mouse cytosine-5 RNA methyltransferase NSun2 is a component of the chromatoid body and required for testis differentiation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1561-1570

  Hussain, Shobbir ^a   Tuorto, Francesca ^b   Menon, Suraj ^c   Blanco, Sandra ^a   Cox, Claire ^a   Flores, Joana V ^a   Watt, Stephen ^c   Kudo, Nobuaki R ^d   Lyko, Frank ^b   Frye, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; NSUN2; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PACHYTENE STAGE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

MUS;

EID: 84876304441     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01523-12     Document Type: Article

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