Piwi-like protein 4 (PIWIL4, HILI2, PIWI)

Function

• role in development & maintenance of stem cells (putative)

Structure

• belongs to the argonaute family
• contains 1 PAZ domain
• contains 1 Piwi domain

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

Expression

expressed in testis

More general terms

• Piwi-like protein (PIWIL)
• testis-specific protein

Database

• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q7Z3Z4.html