Spen links RNA-mediated endogenous retrovirus silencing and X chromosome inactivation
Ava C. Carter, Jin Xu, Meagan Y Nakamoto, Yuning Wei, Brian J. Zarnegar, Quanming Shi, James P. Broughton, Ryan C. Ransom, Ankit Salhotra, Surya Nagaraja, Rui Li, Diana R. Dou, Kathryn E. Yost, Seung-Woo Cho, Anil Mistry, , Howard Y. Chang
This study shows Spen binds to endogenous retroviral RNAs and recruits chromatin silencing machinery, linking RNA-mediated retrovirus silencing to X chromosome inactivation.
eLife · May 7, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics