The DEAD-box helicase Vasa: Evidence for a multiplicity of functions in RNA processes and developmental biology

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1829, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 810-816

  Lasko, Paul ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Germ cell; Meiosis; MicroRNA; Mitosis; Stem cell; Translational control

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX HELICASE VASA; HELICASE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GERM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SEA URCHIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; RNA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; ECHINOIDEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 84878110761     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2013.04.005     Document Type: Review

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