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Transcriptional repression by the Caenorhabditis elegans germ-line protein PIE-1.
Genes & development - 15 Jan 1999
Batchelder C, Dunn M A, Choy B, Suh Y, Cassie C, Shim E Y, Shin T H, Mello C, Seydoux G, Blackwell T K
Abstract excerpt
In the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, maternally expressed PIE-1 protein is required in germ-line blastomeres to inhibit somatic differentiation, maintain an absence of mRNA transcription, and block phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II large subunit (Pol II) carboxy-terminal domain (CTD). We have determined that PIE-1 can function as a transcriptional repressor in cell culture assays. By fusing PIE-1...
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