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An enhancer screen identifies new suppressors of small-RNA-mediated epigenetic gene silencing.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jun 2021
Shimada Yukiko, Carl Sarah H, Skribbe Merle, Flury Valentin, Kuzdere Tahsin, Kempf Georg, Bühler Marc
Abstract excerpt
Small non-protein coding RNAs are involved in pathways that control the genome at the level of chromatin. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are required for the faithful propagation of heterochromatin that is found at peri-centromeric repeats. In contrast to repetitive DNA, protein-coding genes are refractory to siRNA-mediated heterochromatin formation, unless siRNAs are expressed in...
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