Emerging roles and functional mechanisms of PIWI-interacting RNAs

X Wang, A Ramat, M Simonelig, MF Liu - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that associate with
proteins of the PIWI clade of the Argonaute family. First identified in animal germ line cells …

PIWI-interacting RNA: its biogenesis and functions

YW Iwasaki, MC Siomi, H Siomi - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small RNAs that are 24–31 nucleotides in
length. They associate with PIWI proteins, which constitute a germline-specific subclade of …

PIWI-interacting small RNAs: the vanguard of genome defence

MC Siomi, K Sato, D Pezic, AA Aravin - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2011 - nature.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a distinct class of small non-coding RNAs that form the
piRNA-induced silencing complex (piRISC) in the germ line of many animal species. The …

RNA interference: biology, mechanism, and applications

N Agrawal, PVN Dasaradhi, A Mohmmed… - Microbiology and …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Double-stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) is a simple and rapid method of
silencing gene expression in a range of organisms. The silencing of a gene is a …

[HTML][HTML] Genes and mechanisms related to RNA interference regulate expression of the small temporal RNAs that control C. elegans developmental timing

A Grishok, AE Pasquinelli, D Conte, N Li, S Parrish… - Cell, 2001 - cell.com
RNAi is a gene-silencing phenomenon triggered by double-stranded (ds) RNA and involves
the generation of 21 to 26 nt RNA segments that guide mRNA destruction. In Caenorhabditis …

Regulation of heterochromatic silencing and histone H3 lysine-9 methylation by RNAi

TA Volpe, C Kidner, IM Hall, G Teng, SIS Grewal… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Eukaryotic heterochromatin is characterized by a high density of repeats and transposons,
as well as by modified histones, and influences both gene expression and chromosome …

MIWI2 is essential for spermatogenesis and repression of transposons in the mouse male germline

MA Carmell, A Girard, HJG Van De Kant, D Bourc'his… - Developmental cell, 2007 - cell.com
Summary Small RNAs associate with Argonaute proteins and serve as sequence-specific
guides for regulation of mRNA stability, productive translation, chromatin organization, and …

The rde-1 gene, RNA interference, and transposon silencing in C. elegans

H Tabara, M Sarkissian, WG Kelly, J Fleenor, A Grishok… - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
Double-stranded (ds) RNA can induce sequence-specific inhibition of gene function in
several organisms. However, both the mechanism and the physiological role of the …

Revealing the world of RNA interference.

CC Mello, D Conte Jr - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The recent discoveries of RNA interference and related RNA silencing pathways have
revolutionized our understanding of gene regulation. RNA interference has been used as a …

The small RNA profile during Drosophila melanogaster development

AA Aravin, M Lagos-Quintana, A Yalcin, M Zavolan… - Developmental cell, 2003 - cell.com
Small RNAs ranging in size between 20 and 30 nucleotides are involved in different types of
regulation of gene expression including mRNA degradation, translational repression, and …