To be or not to be a piRNA: genomic origin and processing of piRNAs

Multiple roles for Piwi in silencing Drosophila transposons

(2013) N. V. Rozhkov et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Piwi induces piRNA-guided transcriptional silencing and establishment of a repressive chromatin state

(2013) A. Le Thomas et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

An Ancient Transcription Factor Initiates the Burst of piRNA Production during Early Meiosis in Mouse Testes

(2013) Xin Zhiguo Li et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Transcriptional Silencing of Transposons by Piwi and Maelstrom and Its Impact on Chromatin State and Gene Expression

(2012) Grzegorz Sienski et al.   CELL

UAP56 Couples piRNA Clusters to the Perinuclear Transposon Silencing Machinery

(2012) Fan Zhang et al.   CELL

ArabidopsisArgonaute MID domains use their nucleotide specificity loop to sort small RNAs

(2012) Filipp Frank et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Promoters Recognized by Forkhead Proteins Exist for Individual 21U-RNAs

(2012) Germano Cecere et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

HP1Swi6 Mediates the Recognition and Destruction of Heterochromatic RNA Transcripts

(2012) Claudia Keller et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Structure and function of Zucchini endoribonuclease in piRNA biogenesis

(2012) Hiroshi Nishimasu et al.   NATURE

Paramutation in Drosophila linked to emergence of a piRNA-producing locus

(2012) Augustin de Vanssay et al.   NATURE

The structural biochemistry of Zucchini implicates it as a nuclease in piRNA biogenesis

(2012) Jonathan J. Ipsaro et al.   NATURE

piRNA Production Requires Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila

(2011) Prashanth Rangan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

3′ End Formation of PIWI-Interacting RNAs In Vitro

(2011) Shinpei Kawaoka et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Production of artificial piRNAs in flies and mice

(2011) F. Muerdter et al.   RNA

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

(2010) Daniel Olivieri et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

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

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

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

(2010) Filipp Frank et al.   NATURE

HP1 Recruitment in the Absence of Argonaute Proteins in Drosophila

(2010) Nellie Moshkovich et al.   PLoS Genetics

Small RNAs as Guardians of the Genome

(2009) Colin D. Malone et al.   CELL

The Drosophila HP1 Homolog Rhino Is Required for Transposon Silencing and piRNA Production by Dual-Strand Clusters

(2009) Carla Klattenhoff et al.   CELL

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

(2009) Nicolas Robine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Biased Chromatin Signatures around Polyadenylation Sites and Exons

(2009) Noah Spies et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

A regulatory circuit for piwi by the large Maf gene traffic jam in Drosophila

(2009) Kuniaki Saito et al.   NATURE

Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe

(2009) Megha Ghildiyal et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Biogenesis of small RNAs in animals

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

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

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

An Epigenetic Role for Maternally Inherited piRNAs in Transposon Silencing

(2008) J. Brennecke et al.   SCIENCE