Tex19 paralogs are new members of the piRNA pathway controlling retrotransposon suppression

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1463-1474

  Tarabay, Yara ^a   Achour, Mayada ^a   Teletin, Marius ^a,b   Ye, Tao ^a   Teissandier, Aurélie ^c   Mark, Manuel ^a,b   Bourc'his, Déborah ^c   Viville, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Infertility; Meiosis; PiRNA pathway; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PIWIL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; RETROPOSON; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TEX19 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS EXPRESSED GENE 19; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; RAT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TESTIS;

EID: 85017555357     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.188763     Document Type: Article

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