Transcriptional properties and splicing of the flamenco piRNA cluster

EMBO Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 411-418

  Goriaux, Coline ^a,b,c   Desset, Sophie ^a,b,c   Renaud, Yoan ^a,b,c   Vaury, Chantal ^a,b,c   Brasset, Emilie ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Drosophila; flamenco; piRNA clusters; transcription; transposable elements

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CADHERIN; CI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898661166     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/embr.201337898     Document Type: Article

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