Retrotransposon silencing during embryogenesis: dicer cuts in LINE

Geoffrey J Faulkner

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003944

Retrotransposon silencing during embryogenesis: dicer cuts in LINE

PLoS Genet. 2013 Nov;9(11):e1003944. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003944. Epub 2013 Nov 7.

Author

Geoffrey J Faulkner¹

Affiliation

¹ Cancer Biology Program, Mater Medical Research Institute, South Brisbane, Australia ; School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Argonaute Proteins / genetics*
DEAD-box RNA Helicases / genetics*
Embryonic Stem Cells / metabolism*
Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements / genetics*
RNA Interference*
Ribonuclease III / genetics*

Substances

Ago2 protein, mouse
Argonaute Proteins
Dicer1 protein, mouse
Ribonuclease III
DEAD-box RNA Helicases

Grant support

The author is supported by an Australian NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (GNT1045237), NHMRC Project Grants GNT1042449, GNT1045991, and GNT1052303, and the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement No. 259743 underpinning the MODHEP consortium. The funders had no role in the preparation of the manuscript.