PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs function in Hydra somatic stem cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 337-342

  Juliano, Celina E ^a   Reich, Adrian ^b   Liu, Na ^a   Götzfried, Jessica ^a   Zhong, Mei ^a   Uman, Selen ^a   Reenan, Robert A ^b   Wessel, Gary M ^b   Steele, Robert E ^c   Lin, Haifan ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENE MAPPING; HYDRA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; STEM CELL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDRA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84891924741     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320965111     Document Type: Article

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