Analysis of Hydra PIWI proteins and piRNAs uncover early evolutionary origins of the piRNA pathway

Developmental Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 237-251

  Lim, Robyn S M ^a   Anand, Amit ^a   Nishimiya Fujisawa, Chiemi ^b   Kobayashi, Satoru ^b   Kai, Toshie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydra; Nuage; Pirna; PIWI protein

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN HYLI; PROTEIN HYWI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; ARGININE; HYLI PROTEIN; HYWI PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME KINETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HYDRA; HYLI GENE; HYWI GENE; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EVOLUTION; GENOME; NUAGE;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; HYDRA;

HYDRA; NUAGE; PIRNA; PIWI PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONTIG MAPPING; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDRA; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84892487532     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.12.007     Document Type: Article

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