Nuclear RNA export factor variant initiates piRNA-guided co-transcriptional silencing
Kensaku Murano, Yuka W. Iwasaki, Hirotsugu Ishizu, Akane Mashiko, Aoi Shibuya, Shu Kondo, Shungo Adachi, Saori Suzuki, Kuniaki Saito, Tohru Natsume, Mikiko C. Siomi, Haruhiko Siomi
The paper identifies Nxf2 as a key component in the Piwi-piRNA pathway, showing it forms complexes that stabilize Piwi and Panx and initiate co-transcriptional silencing of target transcripts.
The EMBO Journal · Aug 1, 2019Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology