MIWI and piRNA-mediated cleavage of messenger RNAs in mouse testes

Cell Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-207

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Kang, Jun Yan ^b,c   Gou, Lan Tao ^b,c   Wang, Jiajia ^a   Xue, Yuanchao ^e,f   Skogerboe, Geir ^d   Dai, Peng ^b,c   Huang, Da Wei ^a   Chen, Runsheng ^d   Fu, Xiang Dong ^e,f   Liu, Mo Fang ^b,c   He, Shunmin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^e WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MIWI; piRNA; sperm

Indexed keywords

MUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; PIWIL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RAD1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; XRCC2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RNA CLEAVAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONUCLEASES; MALE; MICE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84922153415     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2015.4     Document Type: Article

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