Repressive Chromatin in Caenorhabditis elegans: Establishment, Composition, and Function

J Ahringer, SM Gasser - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin is organized and compacted in the nucleus through the association of histones
and other proteins, which together control genomic activity. Two broad types of chromatin …

MORC protein family-related signature within human disease and cancer

H Wang, L Zhang, Q Luo, J Liu, G Wang - Cell death & disease, 2021 - nature.com
The microrchidia (MORC) family of proteins is a highly conserved nuclear protein
superfamily, whose members contain common domain structures (GHKL-ATPase, CW-type …

A MORC-driven transcriptional switch controls Toxoplasma developmental trajectories and sexual commitment

DC Farhat, C Swale, C Dard, D Cannella, P Ortet… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Toxoplasma gondii has a complex life cycle that is typified by asexual development that
takes place in vertebrates, and sexual reproduction, which occurs exclusively in felids and is …

The full-length transcriptome of C. elegans using direct RNA sequencing

NP Roach, N Sadowski, AF Alessi, W Timp… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Current transcriptome annotations have largely relied on short read lengths intrinsic to the
most widely used high-throughput cDNA sequencing technologies. For example, in the …

Arabidopsis MORC proteins function in the efficient establishment of RNA directed DNA methylation

Y Xue, Z Zhong, CJ Harris, J Gallego-Bartolomé… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The Microrchidia (MORC) family of ATPases are required for transposable element (TE)
silencing and heterochromatin condensation in plants and animals, and C. elegans MORC …

Genome‐wide association and environmental suppression of the mortal germline phenotype of wild C. elegans

L Frézal, M Saglio, G Zhang, L Noble, A Richaud… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
The animal germline lineage needs to be maintained along generations. However, some
Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolates display a mortal germline phenotype, leading to …

Single-nucleus RNA-seq reveals that MBD5, MBD6, and SILENZIO maintain silencing in the vegetative cell of developing pollen

L Ichino, CL Picard, J Yun, M Chotai, S Wang, EK Lin… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Silencing of transposable elements (TEs) drives the evolution of numerous redundant
mechanisms of transcriptional regulation. Arabidopsis MBD5, MBD6, and SILENZIO act as …

A cytoplasmic Argonaute protein promotes the inheritance of RNAi

F Xu, X Feng, X Chen, C Weng, Q Yan, T Xu, M Hong… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
RNAi-elicited gene silencing is heritable and can persist for multiple generations after its
initial induction in C. elegans. However, the mechanism by which parental-acquired trait …

Neuropathic MORC2 mutations perturb GHKL ATPase dimerization dynamics and epigenetic silencing by multiple structural mechanisms

CH Douse, S Bloor, Y Liu, M Shamin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Missense mutations in MORC2 cause neuropathies including spinal muscular atrophy and
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease. We recently identified MORC2 as an effector of epigenetic …

Caenorhabditis elegans nuclear RNAi factor SET-32 deposits the transgenerational histone modification, H3K23me3

L Schwartz-Orbach, C Zhang, S Sidoli, R Amin, D Kaur… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Nuclear RNAi provides a highly tractable system to study RNA-mediated chromatin changes
and epigenetic inheritance. Recent studies have indicated that the regulation and function of …