Description
Product Characteristics: PIWIL1, HIWI, PIWI, piwi-like 1 (Drosophila), piwi (Drosophila)-like 1, homolog of Drosophila piwi, MIWI, piwi homolog, piwi-like 1
Target Information: This gene encodes a member of the PIWI subfamily of Argonaute proteins, evolutionarily conserved proteins containing both PAZ and Piwi motifs that play important roles in stem cell self-renewal, RNA silencing, and translational regulation in diverse organisms. The encoded protein may play a role as an intrinsic regulator of the self-renewal capacity of germline and hematopoietic stem cells. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2010]