Paramutation in drosophila requires both nuclear and cytoplasmic actors of the piRNA pathway and induces cis-spreading of piRNA production

Genetics

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1381-1396

  Hermant, Catherine ^a,b   Boivin, Antoine ^a,b   Teysset, Laure ^a,b   Delmarre, Valérie ^a,b   Asif Laidin, Amna ^a,b   Van Den Beek, Marius ^a,b,c   Antoniewski, Christophe ^a,b,c   Ronsseray, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Département de Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gene regulation; Mobile DNA; Noncoding small RNAs; Trans generational epigenetics

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; AUBERGINE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CUTOFF PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; RHINO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZUCCHINI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC BACKGROUND; HETEROCHROMATIN; INHERITANCE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMUTATION; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SOMATIC CELL; STOP CODON; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOPLASM; GENE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84957831282     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.180307     Document Type: Article

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