Piwi like rna-mediated gene silencing 4
Piwi like RNA-mediated gene silencing 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PIWIL4 gene. [1]
Function
Function
PIWIL4 belongs to the Argonaute family of proteins, which function in development and maintenance of germline stem cells (Sasaki et al., 2003 [PubMed 12906857]).
References
References
- ↑ “Entrez Gene: Piwi like RNA-mediated gene silencing 4”. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
Further reading
Further reading
- Sugimoto K, Kage H, Aki N, Sano A, Kitagawa H, Nagase T, Yatomi Y, Ohishi N, Takai D (2007). “The induction of H3K9 methylation by PIWIL4 at the p16Ink4a locus”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 359 (3): 497–502. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.05.136. PMID 17544373.
- Li L, Yu C, Gao H, Li Y (2010). “Argonaute proteins: potential biomarkers for human colon cancer”. BMC Cancer. 10: 38. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-10-38. PMC 2843668. PMID 20146808.
- Rose JE, Behm FM, Drgon T, Johnson C, Uhl GR (2010). “Personalized smoking cessation: interactions between nicotine dose, dependence and quit-success genotype score”. Mol. Med. 16 (7–8): 247–53. doi:10.2119/molmed.2009.00159. PMC 2896464. PMID 20379614.
- Kim JS, Choi YY, Jin G, Kang HG, Choi JE, Jeon HS, Lee WK, Kim DS, Kim CH, Kim YJ, Son JW, Jung TH, Park JY (2010). “Association of a common AGO1 variant with lung cancer risk: a two-stage case-control study”. Mol. Carcinog. 49 (10): 913–21. doi:10.1002/mc.20672. PMID 20721975.
- Gu A, Ji G, Shi X, Long Y, Xia Y, Song L, Wang S, Wang X (2010). “Genetic variants in Piwi-interacting RNA pathway genes confer susceptibility to spermatogenic failure in a Chinese population”. Hum. Reprod. 25 (12): 2955–61. doi:10.1093/humrep/deq274. PMID 20940137.
- Gu A, Ji G, Shi X, Long Y, Xia Y, Song L, Wang S, Wang X (2010). “Genetic variants in Piwi-interacting RNA pathway genes confer susceptibility to spermatogenic failure in a Chinese population”. Hum. Reprod. 25 (12): 2955–61. doi:10.1093/humrep/deq274. PMID 20940137.
- Su C, Ren ZJ, Wang F, Liu M, Li X, Tang H (2012). “PIWIL4 regulates cervical cancer cell line growth and is involved in down-regulating the expression of p14ARF and p53”. FEBS Lett. 586 (9): 1356–62. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2012.03.053. PMID 22483988.
- Greither T, Koser F, Kappler M, Bache M, Lautenschläger C, Göbel S, Holzhausen HJ, Wach S, Würl P, Taubert H (2012). “Expression of human Piwi-like genes is associated with prognosis for soft tissue sarcoma patients”. BMC Cancer. 12: 272. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-12-272. PMC 3472179. PMID 22748119.
- Bao J, Zhang Y, Schuster AS, Ortogero N, Nilsson EE, Skinner MK, Yan W (2014). “Conditional inactivation of Miwi2 reveals that MIWI2 is only essential for prospermatogonial development in mice”. Cell Death Differ. 21 (5): 783–96. doi:10.1038/cdd.2014.5. PMC 3978311. PMID 24464225.
This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.
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