Small RNA profiling and characterization of piRNA clusters in the adult testes of the common marmoset, a model primate

RNA

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1223-1237

  Hirano, Takamasa ^a   Iwasaki, Yuka W ^a   Lin, Zachary Yu Ching ^a   Imamura, Masanori ^a,b   Seki, Naomi M ^a,c   Sasaki, Erika ^a,d   Saito, Kuniaki ^a   Okano, Hideyuki ^a   Siomi, Mikiko C ^c   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

miRNAs; piRNAs; PIWI; Pseudogenes; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALLITHRIX; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PSEUDOGENE; SEX CHROMOSOME; TESTIS; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

MIRNAS; PIRNAS; PIWI; PSEUDOGENES; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALLITHRIX; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TESTIS;

EID: 84904499496     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.045310.114     Document Type: Article

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