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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009

MIWI-independent small RNAs (MSY-RNAs) bind to the RNA-binding protein, MSY2, in male germ cells.

Mingang Xu, Sergey Medvedev, Juxiang Yang, Norman B Hecht

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mingang XuCenter for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Sergey Medvedev
Juxiang Yang
Norman B Hecht
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Role of MSY2 in Male Germ Cell and Oocyte DevelopmentR01HD044449 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HECHT, NORMAN B · 2003 to 2007
$1.6M
NICHD NIH HHS HD 044449NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD044449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The germ cell-specific DNA/RNA-binding protein MSY2 binds small RNAs (MSY-RNAs) that are approximately 25-31 nt in length, often initiate with a 5' adenine, and are expressed in both germ cells and somatic cells. MSY-RNA levels do not decrease in Miwi or Msy2 null mice. Most MSY-RNAs map within annotated genes, but some are PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA)-like and map to piRNA clusters. MSY-RNAs are in both nuclei and cytoplasm. In nuclei, MSY-RNAs are enriched in chromatin, and in the cytoplasm they are detected in both ribonucleoproteins and polysomes.

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AnimalsArgonaute ProteinsBase SequenceCell NucleusChromatinChromosome MappingCytoplasmElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenomicsImmunoprecipitationMaleMiceMice, KnockoutPolyribosomesProtein BindingArgonaute ProteinsChromatinPiwil1 protein, mouseProteinsRibonucleoproteinsRNARNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerYbx2 protein, mouse

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PMID19597149
PMCPMC2718373
OpenAlexW2145625571

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