The USTC co-opts an ancient machinery to drive piRNA transcription in C. elegans.
Chenchun Weng,
Joanna Kosalka,
Ahmet C Berkyurek,
Przemyslaw Stempor,
Xuezhu Feng,
Hui Mao,
Chenming Zeng,
Wen-Jun Li,
Yong-Hong Yan,
Meng-Qiu Dong,
Natalia Rosalía Morero,
Cecilia Zuliani,
Orsolya Barabas,
Julie Ahringer,
Shouhong Guang,
Eric A Miska
Jan 08, 2019
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) engage Piwi proteins to suppress transposons and nonself nucleic acids and maintain genome integrity and are essential for fertility in a variety of organisms. In Caenorhabditis elegans, most piRNA...