The roles of DAZL in RNA biology and development

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 527-535

  Smorag, Lukasz ^a   Xu, Xingbo ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Pantakani, D V Krishna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA LIKE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 3; PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEVELOPMENT; DIMERIZATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMETOGENESIS; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA BINDING; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84902540020     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1228     Document Type: Article

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