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Elimination of shelterin components bypasses RNAi for pericentric heterochromatin assembly.
Genes & development - 15 Nov 2013
Tadeo Xavier, Wang Jiyong, Kallgren Scott P, Liu Jinqiang, Reddy Bharat D, Qiao Feng, Jia Songtao
Abstract excerpt
The RNAi pathway is required for heterochromatin assembly at repetitive DNA elements in diverse organisms. In fission yeast, loss of RNAi causes pericentric heterochromatin defects, compromising gene silencing and chromosome segregation. Here we show that deletion of telomere shelterin components restores pericentric heterochromatin and its functions in RNAi mutants. We further isolated a separation-of-function...
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