The roles of microRNAs and siRNAs in mammalian spermatogenesis

Complete Meiosis from Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Germ Cells In Vitro

(2016) Quan Zhou et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Meiotic Silencing in Mammals

(2015) James M.A. Turner   Annual Review of Genetics

Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals that Argonaute Reshapes the Binding Properties of Its Nucleic Acid Guides

(2015) William E. Salomon et al.   CELL

Escape of X-linked miRNA genes from meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

(2015) E. Sosa et al.   DEVELOPMENT

DNA damage foci: Meaning and significance

(2015) Kai Rothkamm et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS

Dgcr8 and Dicer are essential for sex chromosome integrity during meiosis in males

(2015) A. J. Modzelewski et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

ARGONAUTE2 cooperates with SWI/SNF complex to determine nucleosome occupancy at human Transcription Start Sites

(2015) Claudia Carissimi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Diversity and functional convergence of small noncoding RNAs in male germ cell differentiation and fertilization

(2015) Jesús García-López et al.   RNA

Meiotic Recombination: The Essence of Heredity

(2015) Neil Hunter   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Piwi Proteins and piRNAs in Mammalian Oocytes and Early Embryos

(2015) Elke F. Roovers et al.   Cell Reports

Essential Role for Endogenous siRNAs during Meiosis in Mouse Oocytes

(2015) Paula Stein et al.   PLoS Genetics

Silencing of X-Linked MicroRNAs by Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation

(2015) Hélène Royo et al.   PLoS Genetics

Endogenous siRNAs: regulators of internal affairs

(2014) Monica J. Piatek et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Murine Follicular Development Requires Oocyte DICER, but Not DROSHA1

(2014) Shuiqiao Yuan et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Applying “Gold Standards” to In-Vitro-Derived Germ Cells

(2014) Mary Ann Handel et al.   CELL

Pachytene piRNAs instruct massive mRNA elimination during late spermiogenesis

(2014) Lan-Tao Gou et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Ago2 facilitates Rad51 recruitment and DNA double-strand break repair by homologous recombination

(2014) Min Gao et al.   CELL RESEARCH

A Role for Retrotransposon LINE-1 in Fetal Oocyte Attrition in Mice

(2014) Safia Malki et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Panel of five microRNAs as potential biomarkers for the diagnosis and assessment of male infertility

(2014) Masood Abu-Halima et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Endogenous miRNA and Target Concentrations Determine Susceptibility to Potential ceRNA Competition

(2014) Andrew D. Bosson et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

R-loops induce repressive chromatin marks over mammalian gene terminators

(2014) Konstantina Skourti-Stathaki et al.   NATURE

miR-34/449 miRNAs are required for motile ciliogenesis by repressing cp110

(2014) Rui Song et al.   NATURE

Human nuclear Dicer restricts the deleterious accumulation of endogenous double-stranded RNA

(2014) Eleanor White et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Germ Cell-Specific Targeting of DICER or DGCR8 Reveals a Novel Role for Endo-siRNAs in the Progression of Mammalian Spermatogenesis and Male Fertility

(2014) Céline Zimmermann et al.   PLoS One

Two miRNA clusters, miR-34b/c and miR-449, are essential for normal brain development, motile ciliogenesis, and spermatogenesis

(2014) J. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MicroRNA-34 family expression in bovine gametes and preimplantation embryos

(2014) Allison Tscherner et al.   Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Demystifying the nuclear function of Argonaute proteins

(2014) Vera Huang et al.   RNA Biology

Mechanism and Regulation of Meiotic Recombination Initiation

(2014) Isabel Lam et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

RNAi Factors Are Present and Active in Human Cell Nuclei

(2014) Keith T. Gagnon et al.   Cell Reports

Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia and Infertility in Mice Deficient for miR-34b/c and miR-449 Loci

(2014) Stefano Comazzetto et al.   PLoS Genetics

miRNA Signature in Mouse Spermatogonial Stem Cells Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing

(2014) Tao Tan et al.   Biomed Research International

A Retrotransposon-Driven Dicer Isoform Directs Endogenous Small Interfering RNA Production in Mouse Oocytes

(2013) Matyas Flemr et al.   CELL

Programmed induction of DNA double strand breaks during meiosis: setting up communication between DNA and the chromosome structure

(2013) Valérie Borde et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Altered microRNA expression profiles of human spermatozoa in patients with different spermatogenic impairments

(2013) Masood Abu-Halima et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Multiple Epigenetic Mechanisms and the piRNA Pathway Enforce LINE1 Silencing during Adult Spermatogenesis

(2013) Monica Di Giacomo et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

miRBase: annotating high confidence microRNAs using deep sequencing data

(2013) Ana Kozomara et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Neurospora crassa, a Model System for Epigenetics Research

(2013) R. Aramayo et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Ago1 Interacts with RNA Polymerase II and Binds to the Promoters of Actively Transcribed Genes in Human Cancer Cells

(2013) Vera Huang et al.   PLoS Genetics

piRNAs Can Trigger a Multigenerational Epigenetic Memory in the Germline of C. elegans

(2012) Alyson Ashe et al.   CELL

A Role for Small RNAs in DNA Double-Strand Break Repair

(2012) Wei Wei et al.   CELL

What comes first: translational repression or mRNA degradation? The deepening mystery of microRNA function

(2012) Wenqian Hu et al.   CELL RESEARCH

AGO4 Regulates Entry into Meiosis and Influences Silencing of Sex Chromosomes in the Male Mouse Germline

(2012) Andrew J. Modzelewski et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

A comparative profile of the microRNA transcriptome in immature and mature porcine testes using Solexa deep sequencing

(2012) Chuanjiang Lian et al.   FEBS Journal

The RNase III Enzyme DROSHA Is Essential for MicroRNA Production and Spermatogenesis

(2012) Qiuxia Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

MicroRNA-449 and MicroRNA-34b/c Function Redundantly in Murine Testes by Targeting E2F Transcription Factor-Retinoblastoma Protein (E2F-pRb) Pathway

(2012) Jianqiang Bao et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structure of yeast Argonaute with guide RNA

(2012) Kotaro Nakanishi et al.   NATURE

A nuclear Argonaute promotes multigenerational epigenetic inheritance and germline immortality

(2012) Bethany A. Buckley et al.   NATURE

Site-specific DICER and DROSHA RNA products control the DNA-damage response

(2012) Sofia Francia et al.   NATURE

Senescence is an endogenous trigger for microRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in human cells

(2012) Moussa Benhamed et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

DGCR8 HITS-CLIP reveals novel functions for the Microprocessor

(2012) Sara Macias et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Argonaute proteins couple chromatin silencing to alternative splicing

(2012) Maya Ameyar-Zazoua et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A small RNA response at DNA ends in Drosophila

(2012) Katharina M. Michalik et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

MicroRNA-34c Enhances Murine Male Germ Cell Apoptosis through Targeting ATF1

(2012) Xiaoxuan Liang et al.   PLoS One

Deregulated Sex Chromosome Gene Expression with Male Germ Cell-Specific Loss of Dicer1

(2012) Anne R. Greenlee et al.   PLoS One

Intact p53-Dependent Responses in miR-34–Deficient Mice

(2012) Carla P. Concepcion et al.   PLoS Genetics

Two miRNA Clusters, Mir-17-92 (Mirc1) and Mir-106b-25 (Mirc3), Are Involved in the Regulation of Spermatogonial Differentiation in Mice1

(2011) Ming-Han Tong et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Altered Profile of Seminal Plasma MicroRNAs in the Molecular Diagnosis of Male Infertility

(2011) C. Wang et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse pre-implantation development and primordial germ cells

(2011) M. Saitou et al.   DEVELOPMENT

miRNA and mammalian male germ cells

(2011) S.C. McIver et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE

MicroRNA Destabilization Enables Dynamic Regulation of the miR-16 Family in Response to Cell-Cycle Changes

(2011) Olivia S. Rissland et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Genome-wide analysis reveals novel molecular features of mouse recombination hotspots

(2011) Fatima Smagulova et al.   NATURE

The endonuclease activity of Mili fuels piRNA amplification that silences LINE1 elements

(2011) Serena De Fazio et al.   NATURE

Miwi catalysis is required for piRNA amplification-independent LINE1 transposon silencing

(2011) Michael Reuter et al.   NATURE

MicroRNAs can generate thresholds in target gene expression

(2011) Shankar Mukherji et al.   NATURE GENETICS

PIWI-interacting small RNAs: the vanguard of genome defence

(2011) Mikiko C. Siomi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Dicer Is Required for Haploid Male Germ Cell Differentiation in Mice

(2011) Hanna M. Korhonen et al.   PLoS One

Dicer1 Depletion in Male Germ Cells Leads to Infertility Due to Cumulative Meiotic and Spermiogenic Defects

(2011) Yannick Romero et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNA-21 regulates the self-renewal of mouse spermatogonial stem cells

(2011) Z. Niu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Male germ cells express abundant endogenous siRNAs

(2011) Rui Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chromatoid body and small RNAs in male germ cells

(2011) Oliver Meikar et al.   REPRODUCTION

Mapping meiotic breaks: Spo11 oligonucleotides precisely mark the spots

(2011) Patty Hwang et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

MicroRNA Activity Is Suppressed in Mouse Oocytes

(2010) Jun Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Many Families of C. elegans MicroRNAs Are Not Essential for Development or Viability

(2010) Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

MicroRNA Function Is Globally Suppressed in Mouse Oocytes and Early Embryos

(2010) Nayoung Suh et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

miR-18, a member of Oncomir-1, targets heat shock transcription factor 2 in spermatogenesis

(2010) J. K. Bjork et al.   DEVELOPMENT

DGCR8 recognizes primary transcripts of microRNAs through highly cooperative binding and formation of higher-order structures

(2010) M. Faller et al.   RNA

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

(2010) F. Bouhallier et al.   RNA

MicroRNAs: Target Recognition and Regulatory Functions

(2009) David P. Bartel   CELL

Microarray profiling of microRNAs expressed in testis tissues of developing primates

(2009) Naihong Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS

Many X-linked microRNAs escape meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

(2009) Rui Song et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Biogenesis of small RNAs in animals

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

Distinct passenger strand and mRNA cleavage activities of human Argonaute proteins

(2009) Bingbing Wang et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The endogenous siRNA pathway is involved in heterochromatin formation in Drosophila

(2009) Delphine Fagegaltier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Meiotic maturation failure induced by DICER1 deficiency is derived from primary oocyte ooplasm

(2009) Deidre M Mattiske et al.   REPRODUCTION

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

miRNA and piRNA localization in the male mammalian meiotic nucleus

(2008) E. Marcon et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

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

Mouse ES cells express endogenous shRNAs, siRNAs, and other Microprocessor-independent, Dicer-dependent small RNAs

(2008) J. E. Babiarz et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila

(2008) Benjamin Czech et al.   NATURE

MicroRNA Biogenesis Is Required for Mouse Primordial Germ Cell Development and Spermatogenesis

(2008) Katsuhiko Hayashi et al.   PLoS One

A multifunctional human Argonaute2-specific monoclonal antibody

(2008) S. Rudel et al.   RNA

The Argonaute protein family

(2008) Julia Höck et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

DCL-1 colocalizes with other components of the MSUD machinery and is required for silencing

(2007) William G. Alexander et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY