Distinct Roles of RNA Helicases MVH and TDRD9 in PIWI Slicing-Triggered Mammalian piRNA Biogenesis and Function

Developmental Cell

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 623-637.e9

  Wenda, Joanna M ^a   Homolka, David ^a   Yang, Zhaolin ^b,d   Spinelli, Pietro ^b   Sachidanandam, Ravi ^c   Pandey, Radha Raman ^a   Pillai, Ramesh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ddx4; Mili; Miwi; Mvh; piRNAs; Piwi; spermatogenesis; Spn E; Tdrd9; Vasa

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; TUDOR DOMAIN CONTAINING 9 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA HELICASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TDRD9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSPOSON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE SILENCING; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; MICE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 85028810407     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.05.021     Document Type: Article

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