A heterochromatin-dependent transcription machinery drives piRNA expression

Nature

Volumn 549, Issue 7670, 2017, Pages 54-59

  Andersen, Peter Refsing ^a   Tirian, Laszlo ^a   Vunjak, Milica ^a   Brennecke, Julius ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; MOONSHINER PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RHINO PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOONSHINER PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; RHINO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSPOSON; TRF2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

CHROMOSOME; CYTOGENETICS; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; MACHINERY; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GONAD; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85029101508     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23482     Document Type: Article

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