Slicing and Binding by Ago3 or Aub Trigger Piwi-Bound piRNA Production by Distinct Mechanisms

Molecular Cell

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 819-830

  Wang, Wei ^a   Han, Bo W ^a   Tipping, Cindy ^a   Ge, Daniel Tianfang ^a   Zhang, Zhao ^a,b   Weng, Zhiping ^a   Zamore, Phillip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; AUBERGINE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGO3 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; AUBERGINE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; PIWI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN BINDING; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSPOSON; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OOCYTE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OVUM; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84940885469     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.08.007     Document Type: Article

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