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

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 324-337

  Czech, Benjamin ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ping pong amplification loop; piRNA biogenesis; PIWI proteins; post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS); transcriptional gene silencing (TGS); transposon control

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CUTOFF PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DEADLOCK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; RHINO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BIOGENESIS; BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84955323893     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.12.008     Document Type: Review

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