Windei, the Drosophila homolog of mAM/MCAF1, is an essential cofactor of the H3K9 methyl transferase dSETDB1/Eggless in germ line development.

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Published in PLoS Genet on September 11, 2009

Authors

Carmen M Koch1, Mona Honemann-Capito, Diane Egger-Adam, Andreas Wodarz

Author Affiliations

1: Abteilung Stammzellbiologie, DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

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