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MORC-1 Integrates Nuclear RNAi and Transgenerational Chromatin Architecture to Promote Germline Immortality.
Developmental cell - 22 May 2017
Weiser Natasha E, Yang Danny X, Feng Suhua, Kalinava Natallia, Brown Kristen C, Khanikar Jayshree, Freeberg Mallory A, Snyder Martha J, Csankovszki Györgyi, Chan Raymond C, Gu Sam G, Montgomery Taiowa A, Jacobsen Steven E, Kim John K
Abstract excerpt
Germline-expressed endogenous small interfering RNAs (endo-siRNAs) transmit multigenerational epigenetic information to ensure fertility in subsequent generations. In Caenorhabditis elegans, nuclear RNAi ensures robust inheritance of endo-siRNAs and deposition of repressive H3K9me3 marks at target loci. How target silencing is maintained in subsequent generations is poorly understood. We discovered that morc-1 is...
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