PIWI Proteins Are Dispensable for Mouse Somatic Development and Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Pluripotent Stem Cells

Beyond transposons: the epigenetic and somatic functions of the Piwi-piRNA mechanism

(2013) Jamy C Peng et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Prdm14 promotes germline fate and naive pluripotency by repressing FGF signalling and DNA methylation

(2013) Nils Grabole et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Piwi Genes Are Dispensable for Normal Hematopoiesis in Mice

(2013) Mona J. Nolde et al.   PLoS One

Combining competition assays with genetic complementation strategies to dissect mouse embryonic stem cell self-renewal and pluripotency

(2012) Dung-Fang Lee et al.   Nature Protocols

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

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

Identification and Regulation of a Stage-Specific Stem Cell Niche Enriched by Nanog-Positive Spermatogonial Stem Cells in the Mouse Testis

(2012) Sami Ventelä et al.   STEM CELLS

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

Reconstitution of the Mouse Germ Cell Specification Pathway in Culture by Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2011) Katsuhiko Hayashi et al.   CELL

Sox2+ Adult Stem and Progenitor Cells Are Important for Tissue Regeneration and Survival of Mice

(2011) Katrin Arnold et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Expression and interdependencies of pluripotency factors LIN28, OCT3/4, NANOG and SOX2 in human testicular germ cells and tumours of the testis

(2011) A. J. M. Gillis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

A Germ Cell-specific Gene,Prmt5, Works in Somatic Cell Reprogramming

(2011) Go Nagamatsu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Direct reprogramming of somatic cells is promoted by maternal transcription factor Glis1

(2011) Momoko Maekawa et al.   NATURE

Isolation and characterization of human spermatogonial stem cells

(2011) Shixue Liu et al.   Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

baySeq: Empirical Bayesian methods for identifying differential expression in sequence count data

(2010) Thomas J Hardcastle et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Hsp90 prevents phenotypic variation by suppressing the mutagenic activity of transposons

(2010) Valeria Specchia et al.   NATURE

A genome-wide RNAi screen reveals determinants of human embryonic stem cell identity

(2010) Na-Yu Chia et al.   NATURE

Drosophila Piwi functions in Hsp90-mediated suppression of phenotypic variation

(2010) Vamsi K Gangaraju et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Sequence-specific regulator Prdm14 safeguards mouse ESCs from entering extraembryonic endoderm fates

(2010) Ziyang Ma et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A Distinct Expression Pattern in Mammalian Testes Indicates a Conserved Role for NANOG in Spermatogenesis

(2010) Ewart W. Kuijk et al.   PLoS One

Differential expression analysis for sequence count data

(2010) Simon Anders et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

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

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The pluripotency factor LIN28 marks undifferentiated spermatogonia in mouse

(2009) Ke Zheng et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

LIN28 lets BLIMP1 Take the Right Course

(2009) Martin M. Matzuk   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Arginine methylation of Piwi proteins catalysed by dPRMT5 is required for Ago3 and Aub stability

(2009) Yohei Kirino et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Sequential Expression of Pluripotency Markers during Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Somatic Cells

(2008) Tobias Brambrink et al.   Cell Stem Cell

MILI, a PIWI-interacting RNA-binding Protein, Is Required for Germ Line Stem Cell Self-renewal and Appears to Positively Regulate Translation

(2008) Yingdee Unhavaithaya et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A piRNA Pathway Primed by Individual Transposons Is Linked to De Novo DNA Methylation in Mice

(2008) Alexei A. Aravin et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Induction of pluripotent stem cells by defined factors is greatly improved by small-molecule compounds

(2008) Danwei Huangfu et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Induction of pluripotent stem cells from primary human fibroblasts with only Oct4 and Sox2

(2008) Danwei Huangfu et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Generation of multipotent cell lines from a distinct population of male germ line stem cells

(2008) Fariborz Izadyar et al.   REPRODUCTION