Small RNA regulation of reproductive function

Endogenous miRNA Sponge lincRNA-RoR Regulates Oct4, Nanog, and Sox2 in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal

(2013) Yue Wang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Natural RNA circles function as efficient microRNA sponges

(2013) Thomas B. Hansen et al.   NATURE

Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency

(2013) Sebastian Memczak et al.   NATURE

Deep sequencing of small RNAs identifies canonical and non-canonical miRNA and endogenous siRNAs in mammalian somatic tissues

(2013) Leandro Castellano et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Cellular Source and Mechanisms of High Transcriptome Complexity in the Mammalian Testis

(2013) Magali Soumillon et al.   Cell Reports

Small RNA Profile of the Cumulus-Oocyte Complex and Early Embryos in the Pig1

(2012) Cai-Xia Yang et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Biology of PIWI-interacting RNAs: new insights into biogenesis and function inside and outside of germlines

(2012) H. Ishizu et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The dark side of a success story: microRNAs of the C19MC cluster in human tumours

(2012) Inga Flor et al.   JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

Precursor MicroRNA-Programmed Silencing Complex Assembly Pathways in Mammals

(2012) Xuhang Liu et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Dysregulation of Uterine Signaling Pathways in Progesterone Receptor-CreKnockout ofDicer

(2012) Shannon M. Hawkins et al.   MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Expression of RNA-binding proteins DND1 and FXR1 in the porcine ovary, and during oocyte maturation and early embryo development

(2012) Cai-Xia Yang et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Mechanisms of implantation: strategies for successful pregnancy

(2012) Jeeyeon Cha et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Mili and Miwi target RNA repertoire reveals piRNA biogenesis and function of Miwi in spermiogenesis

(2012) Anastassios Vourekas et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The mechanics of miRNA-mediated gene silencing: a look under the hood of miRISC

(2012) Marc R Fabian et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Altered Expression of Porcine Piwi Genes and piRNA during Development

(2012) Dorota Kowalczykiewicz et al.   PLoS One

Uniting Germline and Stem Cells: The Function of Piwi Proteins and the piRNA Pathway in Diverse Organisms

(2011) Celina Juliano et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Gatekeepers for Piwi–piRNA complexes to enter the nucleus

(2011) Hirotsugu Ishizu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Small RNAs in early mammalian development: from gametes to gastrulation

(2011) N. Suh et al.   DEVELOPMENT

miRNA-dependent gene silencing involving Ago2-mediated cleavage of a circular antisense RNA

(2011) Thomas B Hansen et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

A survey of small RNAs in human sperm

(2011) Stephen A. Krawetz et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Differentially expressed micoRNAs in human oocytes

(2011) Yan-Wen Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS

MicroRNAs in pregnancy

(2011) Diana M. Morales Prieto et al.   JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

MicroRNA-21: a ubiquitously expressed pro-survival factor in cancer and other diseases

(2011) Si Li et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

3′ End Formation of PIWI-Interacting RNAs In Vitro

(2011) Shinpei Kawaoka et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Gene silencing in X-chromosome inactivation: advances in understanding facultative heterochromatin formation

(2011) Anton Wutz   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Expression analysis of regulatory microRNAs in bovine cumulus oocyte complex and preimplantation embryos

(2011) W.S. Abd El Naby et al.   ZYGOTE

Regulation of mRNA Translation and Stability by microRNAs

(2010) Marc Robert Fabian et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

MicroRNA 21 Blocks Apoptosis in Mouse Periovulatory Granulosa Cells1

(2010) Martha Z. Carletti et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Pathways of Proliferation and Antiapoptosis Driven in Breast Cancer Stem Cells by Stem Cell Protein Piwil2

(2010) Jae Ho Lee et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

Interplay between microRNAs and RNA-binding proteins determines developmental processes

(2010) Martijn Kedde et al.   CELL CYCLE

Computational identification and characterization of primate-specific microRNAs in human genome

(2010) Sheng Lin et al.   COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

MicroRNA Activity Is Suppressed in Mouse Oocytes

(2010) Jun Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

MicroRNA Function Is Globally Suppressed in Mouse Oocytes and Early Embryos

(2010) Nayoung Suh et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An in vivo RNAi assay identifies major genetic and cellular requirements for primary piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila

(2010) Daniel Olivieri et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The role of miRNAs and endogenous siRNAs in maternal-to-zygotic reprogramming and the establishment of pluripotency

(2010) Petr Svoboda et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Epigenetic control of the expression of a primate-specific microRNA cluster in human cancer cells

(2010) Kuo-Wang Tsai et al.   Epigenetics

Probing the initiation and effector phases of the somatic piRNA pathway in Drosophila

(2010) A. D. Haase et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Roles for the Yb body components Armitage and Yb in primary piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila

(2010) K. Saito et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The primate-specific microRNA gene cluster (C19MC) is imprinted in the placenta

(2010) M. Noguer-Dance et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Genetic variants in Piwi-interacting RNA pathway genes confer susceptibility to spermatogenic failure in a Chinese population

(2010) A. Gu et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Many ways to generate microRNA-like small RNAs: non-canonical pathways for microRNA production

(2010) Keita Miyoshi et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Opposing microRNA families regulate self-renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells

(2010) Collin Melton et al.   NATURE

Structural basis for 5′-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2

(2010) Filipp Frank et al.   NATURE

A dicer-independent miRNA biogenesis pathway that requires Ago catalysis

(2010) Sihem Cheloufi et al.   NATURE

Expression Profile of MicroRNAs and mRNAs in Human Placentas From Pregnancies Complicated by Preeclampsia and Preterm Labor

(2010) Kathleen Mayor-Lynn et al.   Reproductive Sciences

Role of miR-34c microRNA in the late steps of spermatogenesis

(2010) F. Bouhallier et al.   RNA

Distinct Functions for the Drosophila piRNA Pathway in Genome Maintenance and Telomere Protection

(2010) Jaspreet S. Khurana et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Biogenesis and Function of PIWI Proteins and piRNAs: Progress and Prospect

(2009) Travis Thomson et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Collapse of Germline piRNAs in the Absence of Argonaute3 Reveals Somatic piRNAs in Flies

(2009) Chengjian Li et al.   CELL

Mili Interacts with Tudor Domain-Containing Protein 1 in Regulating Spermatogenesis

(2009) Jianquan Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Broadly Conserved Pathway Generates 3′UTR-Directed Primary piRNAs

(2009) Nicolas Robine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

miRNA processing turned upside down

(2009) Rebecca Schwab et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The primordial pool of follicles and nest breakdown in mammalian ovaries

(2009) C. Tingen et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Identification and expression profiling of microRNAs during bovine oocyte maturation using heterologous approach

(2009) Dawit Tesfaye et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

A three-dimensional view of the molecular machinery of RNA interference

(2009) Martin Jinek et al.   NATURE

Biogenesis of small RNAs in animals

(2009) V. Narry Kim et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Epigenetic dynamics of stem cells and cell lineage commitment: digging Waddington's canal

(2009) Myriam Hemberger et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Two Piwi proteins, Xiwi and Xili, are expressed in the Xenopus female germline

(2009) A. Wilczynska et al.   RNA

Essential role for Argonaute2 protein in mouse oogenesis

(2009) Masahiro Kaneda et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Dicer1 Is Required for Differentiation of the Mouse Male Germline1

(2008) Danielle M. Maatouk et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Connecting microRNA Genes to the Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry of Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Alexander Marson et al.   CELL

Mouse germ cell development during embryogenesis

(2008) Yumiko Saga   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Zili is required for germ cell differentiation and meiosis in zebrafish

(2008) Saskia Houwing et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

DNA methylation of retrotransposon genes is regulated by Piwi family members MILI and MIWI2 in murine fetal testes

(2008) S. Kuramochi-Miyagawa et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Application of massively parallel sequencing to microRNA profiling and discovery in human embryonic stem cells

(2008) R. D. Morin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Molecular basis of pluripotency

(2008) L. Chen et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Determinants of MicroRNA Processing Inhibition by the Developmentally Regulated RNA-binding Protein Lin28

(2008) Elena Piskounova et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular Evolution of a Primate-Specific microRNA Family

(2008) R. Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An Inside Job for siRNAs

(2008) Daniel E. Golden et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Deletion of Dicer in Somatic Cells of the Female Reproductive Tract Causes Sterility

(2008) Ankur K. Nagaraja et al.   MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

The Drosophila hairpin RNA pathway generates endogenous short interfering RNAs

(2008) Katsutomo Okamura et al.   NATURE

Endogenous siRNAs from naturally formed dsRNAs regulate transcripts in mouse oocytes

(2008) Toshiaki Watanabe et al.   NATURE

Pseudogene-derived small interfering RNAs regulate gene expression in mouse oocytes

(2008) Oliver H. Tam et al.   NATURE

A feedback loop comprising lin-28 and let-7 controls pre-let-7 maturation during neural stem-cell commitment

(2008) Agnieszka Rybak et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Embryonic stem cell–specific microRNAs regulate the G1-S transition and promote rapid proliferation

(2008) Yangming Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

MicroRNAs control de novo DNA methylation through regulation of transcriptional repressors in mouse embryonic stem cells

(2008) Lasse Sinkkonen et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Two distinct mechanisms generate endogenous siRNAs from bidirectional transcription in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Katsutomo Okamura et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A mammalian microRNA cluster controls DNA methylation and telomere recombination via Rbl2-dependent regulation of DNA methyltransferases

(2008) Roberta Benetti et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Novel MicroRNA Candidates and miRNA-mRNA Pairs in Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells

(2008) Peili Gu et al.   PLoS One

Lin-28 interaction with the Let-7 precursor loop mediates regulated microRNA processing

(2008) M. A. Newman et al.   RNA

Selective Blockade of MicroRNA Processing by Lin28

(2008) S. R. Viswanathan et al.   SCIENCE

Endogenous siRNAs Derived from Transposons and mRNAs in Drosophila Somatic Cells

(2008) M. Ghildiyal et al.   SCIENCE

MicroRNA Signature and Regulatory Functions in the Endometrium during Normal and Disease States

(2008) Qun Pan et al.   SEMINARS IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE