Primary Identifier | MGI:1891384 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 15 | NCBI Gene Number | 83456 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Enables RNA helicase activity and piRNA binding activity. Involved in several processes, including male meiosis I; regulatory ncRNA-mediated gene silencing; and spermatogenesis. Located in pi-body. Is expressed in heart and testis. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in spermatogenic failure 73. Orthologous to human MOV10L1 (Mov10 like RNA helicase 1). PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a targeted allele lacking the helicase domain exhibit male infertility due to meiotic arrest, apoptosis, and derepression of retrotransposons in male germ cells. [provided by MGI curators] |