RNAi function, diversity, and loss in the fungal kingdom

Stalled Spliceosomes Are a Signal for RNAi-Mediated Genome Defense

(2013) Phillip A. Dumesic et al.   CELL

Homologous recombination as a mechanism to recognize repetitive DNA sequences in an RNAi pathway

(2013) Z. Zhang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Sex-Induced Silencing Operates During Opposite-Sex and Unisexual Reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2013) X. Wang et al.   GENETICS

Novel Sexual-Cycle-Specific Gene Silencing in Aspergillus nidulans

(2013) W. Czaja et al.   GENETICS

Novel Proteins Required for Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA and siRNA Generation inNeurospora crassa

(2013) Thomas M. Hammond et al.   GENETICS

The RNAi machinery regulates growth and development in the filamentous fungusTrichoderma atroviride

(2013) Nohemi Carreras-Villaseñor et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Both OsRecQ1 and OsRDR1 Are Required for the Production of Small RNA in Response to DNA-Damage in Rice

(2013) Hui Chen et al.   PLoS One

A Single Argonaute Gene Participates in Exogenous and Endogenous RNAi and Controls Cellular Functions in the Basal Fungus Mucor circinelloides

(2013) María Cervantes et al.   PLoS One

Fungal Small RNAs Suppress Plant Immunity by Hijacking Host RNA Interference Pathways

(2013) Arne Weiberg et al.   SCIENCE

Unisexual and Heterosexual Meiotic Reproduction Generate Aneuploidy and Phenotypic Diversity De Novo in the Yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

(2013) Min Ni et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Loss and Retention of RNA Interference in Fungi and Parasites

(2013) Francisco E. Nicolás et al.   PLoS Pathogens

RNA Interference Pathways in Fungi: Mechanisms and Functions

(2012) Shwu-Shin Chang et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

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

(2012) Wei Wei et al.   CELL

C. elegans RNA-dependent RNA polymerases rrf-1 and ego-1 silence Drosophila transgenes by differing mechanisms

(2012) Guowen Duan et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Different means, same end—heterochromatin formation by RNAi and RNAi-independent RNA processing factors in fission yeast

(2012) Francisca E Reyes-Turcu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Zinc-dependent Regulation of theadh1Antisense Transcript in Fission Yeast

(2012) Kate M. Ehrensberger et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Reconstitution of an Argonaute-Dependent Small RNA Biogenesis Pathway Reveals a Handover Mechanism Involving the RNA Exosome and the Exonuclease QIP

(2012) Zhihong Xue et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Natural antisense transcripts in fungi

(2012) Michael E. Donaldson et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

RNAi triggered by specialized machinery silences developmental genes and retrotransposons

(2012) Soichiro Yamanaka et al.   NATURE

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

(2012) Sofia Francia et al.   NATURE

A small RNA response at DNA ends in Drosophila

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

Identification and Functional Demonstration of miRNAs in the Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

(2012) Nan Jiang et al.   PLoS One

Transgene Induced Co-Suppression during Vegetative Growth in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2012) Xuying Wang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Diverse and tissue-enriched small RNAs in the plant pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae

(2011) Cristiano C Nunes et al.   BMC GENOMICS

RNA Interference in Fungi: Pathways, Functions, and Applications

(2011) Yunkun Dang et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Meiotic silencing in the homothallic fungus Gibberella zeae

(2011) Hokyoung Son et al.   Fungal Biology

Autoregulation of convergent RNAi genes in fission yeast

(2011) Monika Gullerova et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Efficient implementation of RNA interference in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

(2011) Indrani Bose et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Two distinct RNA-dependent RNA polymerases are required for initiation and amplification of RNA silencing in the basal fungus Mucor circinelloides

(2011) Silvia Calo et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Clr4/Suv39 and RNA Quality Control Factors Cooperate to Trigger RNAi and Suppress Antisense RNA

(2011) K. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Compatibility with Killer Explains the Rise of RNAi-Deficient Fungi

(2011) I. A. Drinnenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Stc1: A Critical Link between RNAi and Chromatin Modification Required for Heterochromatin Integrity

(2010) Elizabeth H. Bayne et al.   CELL

Characterizing the role of RNA silencing components in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2010) Guilhem Janbon et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Sex-induced silencing defends the genome of Cryptococcus neoformans via RNAi

(2010) X. Wang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Diverse Pathways Generate MicroRNA-like RNAs and Dicer-Independent Small Interfering RNAs in Fungi

(2010) Heng-Chi Lee et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Endogenous short RNAs generated by Dicer 2 and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 regulate mRNAs in the basal fungus Mucor circinelloides

(2010) Francisco Esteban Nicolas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Prevalence and Regulation of Antisense Transcripts in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

(2010) Ting Ni et al.   PLoS One

The DNA/RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase QDE-1 Generates Aberrant RNA and dsRNA for RNAi in a Process Requiring Replication Protein A and a DNA Helicase

(2010) Heng-Chi Lee et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cryptococcus neoformans Overcomes Stress of Azole Drugs by Formation of Disomy in Specific Multiple Chromosomes

(2010) Edward Sionov et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Strand-specific RNA sequencing reveals extensive regulated long antisense transcripts that are conserved across yeast species

(2010) Moran Yassour et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

A SingledicerGene Is Required for Efficient Gene Silencing Associated with Two Classes of Small Antisense RNAs inMucor circinelloides

(2009) Juan P. de Haro et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

qiRNA is a new type of small interfering RNA induced by DNA damage

(2009) Heng-Chi Lee et al.   NATURE

Histone H2A.Z cooperates with RNAi and heterochromatin factors to suppress antisense RNAs

(2009) Martin Zofall et al.   NATURE

Small RNAs in transcriptional gene silencing and genome defence

(2009) Danesh Moazed   NATURE

Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe

(2009) Megha Ghildiyal et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

RNAi in Budding Yeast

(2009) I. A. Drinnenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Cohesin Complex Promotes Transcriptional Termination between Convergent Genes in S. pombe

(2008) Monika Gullerova et al.   CELL

Roles of the Clr4 methyltransferase complex in nucleation, spreading and maintenance of heterochromatin

(2008) Ke Zhang et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Origins and evolution of eukaryotic RNA interference

(2008) S SHABALINA et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION