Maternal Depletion of Piwi, a Component of the RNAi System, Impacts Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gu, Tingting ^a   Elgin, Sarah C R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PIWI PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSGENE; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BLASTODERM; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL POSITION EFFECTS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE DEMETHYLASES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84884686616     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003780     Document Type: Article

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