Tdrkh is essential for spermatogenesis and participates in primary piRNA biogenesis in the germline

EMBO Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1869-1885

  Saxe, Jonathan P ^a   Chen, Mengjie ^a,b   Zhao, Hongyu ^b   Lin, Haifan ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Miwi; pirna; Piwi; Spermatogenesis; Tdrd

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; TDRKH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARGININE; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA METHYLATION; INTEGRASES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROBODIES; MITOCHONDRIA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84880220867     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2013.121     Document Type: Article

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