A team of heterochromatin factors collaborates with small RNA pathways to combat repetitive elements and germline stress
Alicia N. McMurchy, Przemysław Stempor, Tessa Gaarenstroom, Brian Wysolmerski, Dong Yan, Darya Ausiannikava, Alex Appert, Ni Huang, Paulina Kolasinska-Zwierz, Alexandra Sapetschnig, Eric Alexander Miska, Julie Ahringer
The paper shows that C. elegans heterochromatin proteins collaborate with piRNA and nuclear RNAi pathways to silence repetitive elements and prevent germline stress.
eLife · Mar 15, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics