The human Piwi protein Hiwi2 associates with tRNA-derived piRNAs in somatic cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 8984-8995

  Keam, Simon P ^a,b   Young, Paul E ^a   McCorkindale, Alexandra L ^a   Dang, Thurston H Y ^a   Clancy, Jennifer L ^a   Humphreys, David T ^a   Preiss, Thomas ^a   Hutvagner, Gyorgy ^b   Martin, David I K ^c   Cropley, Jennifer E ^a,d   Suter, Catherine M ^a,d  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIWI2 PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERM LINE; HILI GENE; HIWI GENE; HIWI2 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA METHYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84906263034     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku620     Document Type: Article

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