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27nt-RNAs guide histone variant deposition via 'RNA-induced DNA replication interference' and thus transmit parental genome partitioning in Stylonychia.
Epigenetics & chromatin - 12 Jun 2018
Postberg Jan, Jönsson Franziska, Weil Patrick Philipp, Bulic Aneta, Juranek Stefan Andreas, Lipps Hans-Joachim
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: During sexual reproduction in the unicellular ciliate Stylonychia somatic macronuclei differentiate from germline micronuclei. Thereby, programmed sequence reduction takes place, leading to the elimination of > 95% of germline sequences, which priorly adopt heterochromatin structure via H3K27me3. Simultaneously, 27nt-ncRNAs become synthesized from parental transcripts and are bound by the Argonaute...
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