The Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein participates in the piRNA pathway

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 128, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2070-2084

  Bozzetti, Maria Pia ^a   Specchia, Valeria ^a   Cattenoz, Pierre B ^b,c,d,e   Laneve, Pietro ^b,c,d,e,f   Geusa, Annamaria ^a,b,c,d,e   Sahin, H Bahar ^b,c,d,e,g   Di Tommaso, Silvia ^a   Friscini, Antonella ^a   Massari, Serafina ^a   Diebold, Celine ^b,c,d,e   Giangrande, Angela ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^g KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aubergine; Crystal Stellate; dFmr1; Drosophila; piRNAs; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FMR1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE INTERACTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METABOLISM; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GERM CELLS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84930810095     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.161810     Document Type: Article

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