Drosophila Gtsf1 is an essential component of the Piwi-mediated transcriptional silencing complex

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1693-1705

  Dönertas, Derya ^a   Sienski, Grzegorz ^a   Brennecke, Julius ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gtsf1; Heterochromatin formation; piRNA pathway; Piwi; Transcriptional silencing; Transposon control

Indexed keywords

GAMETOCYTE SPECIFIC FACTOR 1; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ESSENTIAL GENE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA METHYLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

GTSF1; HETEROCHROMATIN FORMATION; PIRNA PATHWAY; PIWI; TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING; TRANSPOSON CONTROL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84881081955     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.221150.113     Document Type: Article

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