Two Piwis with Ago-like functions silence somatic genes at the chromatin level
Franziska Drews, Sivarajan Karunanithi, Ulrike Götz, Simone Marker, Raphaël de Wijn, Marcello Pirritano, Angela M. Rodrigues-Viana, Martin Jung, Gilles Gasparoni, Marcel H. Schulz, Martin C. Simon
The paper investigates the role of two Piwi proteins in transgene-induced silencing in Paramecium, showing they have distinct but overlapping functions in generating and processing siRNAs for chromatin-level gene silencing.
RNA Biology · Oct 18, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetics