Conditional inactivation of Miwi2 reveals that MIWI2 is only essential for prospermatogonial development in mice

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 783-796

  Bao, J ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Schuster, A S ^a   Ortogero, N ^a   Nilsson, E E ^b   Skinner, M K ^b   Yan, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conditional knockout; meiosis; MIWI2; piRNAs; PIWI; transposon

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MIWI2 PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWIL4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EMBRYO; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MALE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPERMATOGONIAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROPOSON; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GERM CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSPOSON;

MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84898038343     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2014.5     Document Type: Article

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