Stellate Genes and the piRNA Pathway in Speciation and Reproductive Isolation of Drosophila melanogaster

Evolutionarily conserved pachytene piRNA loci are highly divergent among modern humans

(2020) Deniz M. Özata et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Pachytene piRNAs as beneficial regulators or a defense system gone rogue

(2020) Alexei A. Aravin   NATURE GENETICS

piRNA silencing contributes to interspecies hybrid sterility and reproductive isolation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2019) Alexei A Kotov et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The control of gene expression and cell identity by H3K9 trimethylation

(2019) Maria Ninova et al.   DEVELOPMENT

piRNAs and PIWI proteins: regulators of gene expression in development and stem cells

(2018) Patricia Rojas-Ríos et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A Single Mechanism of Biogenesis, Initiated and Directed by PIWI Proteins, Explains piRNA Production in Most Animals

(2018) Ildar Gainetdinov et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Heterochromatin-Enriched Assemblies Reveal the Sequence and Organization of the Drosophila melanogaster Y Chromosome

(2018) Ching-Ho Chang et al.   GENETICS

PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions

(2018) Deniz M. Ozata et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Moving Speciation Genetics Forward: Modern Techniques Build on Foundational Studies inDrosophila

(2017) Dean M. Castillo et al.   GENETICS

piRNA Biogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

(2017) Xiawei Huang et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Moving Speciation Genetics Forward: Modern Techniques Build on Foundational Studies inDrosophila

(2017) Dean M. Castillo et al.   GENETICS

RNA helicase Spn-E is required to maintain Aub and AGO3 protein levels for piRNA silencing in the germline of Drosophila

(2016) Sergei S. Ryazansky et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The molecular hallmarks of epigenetic control

(2016) C. David Allis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

One Loop to Rule Them All: The Ping-Pong Cycle and piRNA-Guided Silencing

(2016) Benjamin Czech et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

piRNA-guided slicing of transposon transcripts enforces their transcriptional silencing via specifying the nuclear piRNA repertoire

(2015) Kirsten-André Senti et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Aub and Ago3 Are Recruited to Nuage through Two Mechanisms to Form a Ping-Pong Complex Assembled by Krimper

(2015) Alexandre Webster et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Slicing and Binding by Ago3 or Aub Trigger Piwi-Bound piRNA Production by Distinct Mechanisms

(2015) Wei Wang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Phase Transition of a Disordered Nuage Protein Generates Environmentally Responsive Membraneless Organelles

(2015) Timothy J. Nott et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

piRNA-guided slicing specifies transcripts for Zucchini-dependent, phased piRNA biogenesis

(2015) F. Mohn et al.   SCIENCE

piRNA-guided transposon cleavage initiates Zucchini-dependent, phased piRNA production

(2015) B. W. Han et al.   SCIENCE

RNA Clamping by Vasa Assembles a piRNA Amplifier Complex on Transposon Transcripts

(2014) Jordi Xiol et al.   CELL

Transgenerationally inherited piRNAs trigger piRNA biogenesis by changing the chromatin of piRNA clusters and inducing precursor processing

(2014) Adrien Le Thomas et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Dynamic properties of a germinal granule piNG-body in the testes of Drosophila melanogaster

(2014) G. A. Nosov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Limited Gene Misregulation Is Exacerbated by Allele-Specific Upregulation in Lethal Hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans

(2014) Kevin H.-C. Wei et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Multicolor fluorescence imaging of whole-mount Drosophila testes for studying spermatogenesis

(2013) Mikhail V. Kibanov et al.   ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Mapping of cis-regulatory sites in the promoter of testis-specific Stellate genes of Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) O. M. Olenkina et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY-MOSCOW

UAP56 Couples piRNA Clusters to the Perinuclear Transposon Silencing Machinery

(2012) Fan Zhang et al.   CELL

Promoter contribution to the testis-specific expression of Stellate gene family in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Oxana M. Olenkina et al.   GENE

Expansion and Evolution of the X-Linked Testis Specific Multigene Families in the melanogaster Species Subgroup

(2012) Galina L. Kogan et al.   PLoS One

The tudor domain protein Kumo is required to assemble the nuage and to generate germline piRNAs inDrosophila

(2011) Amit Anand et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

A novel organelle, the piNG-body, in the nuage of Drosophila male germ cells is associated with piRNA-mediated gene silencing

(2011) Mikhail V. Kibanov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Heterotypic piRNA Ping-Pong Requires Qin, a Protein with Both E3 Ligase and Tudor Domains

(2011) Zhao Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Repression of Retroelements in Drosophila Germline via piRNA Pathway by the Tudor Domain Protein Tejas

(2010) Veena S. Patil et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multiple Roles for Heterochromatin Protein 1 Genes in Drosophila

(2009) Danielle Vermaak et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Specialized piRNA Pathways Act in Germline and Somatic Tissues of the Drosophila Ovary

(2009) Colin D. Malone et al.   CELL

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

(2009) Chengjian Li et al.   CELL

Functional involvement of Tudor and dPRMT5 in the piRNA processing pathway in Drosophila germlines

(2009) Kazumichi M Nishida et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

piRNAs mediate posttranscriptional retroelement silencing and localization to pi-bodies in theDrosophilagermline

(2009) Ai Khim Lim et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Genetically Derepressed Nucleoplasmic Stellate Protein in Spermatocytes of D. melanogaster Interacts with the Catalytic Subunit of Protein Kinase 2 and Carries Histone-Like Lysine-Methylated Mark

(2009) Ksenia S. Egorova et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Yohei Kirino et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Peculiarities of piRNA-mediated post-transcriptional silencing of Stellate repeats in testes of Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) Roman N. Kotelnikov et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Germline P Granules Are Liquid Droplets That Localize by Controlled Dissolution/Condensation

(2009) C. P. Brangwynne et al.   SCIENCE

Perturbation of HP1 localization and chromatin binding ability causes defects in sister-chromatid cohesion

(2008) Akira Inoue et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-GENETIC TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS

Protein lysine methyltransferase G9a acts on non-histone targets

(2008) Philipp Rathert et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Turning a hobby into a job: How duplicated genes find new functions

(2008) Gavin C. Conant et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS