Co-dependent Assembly of Drosophila piRNA Precursor Complexes and piRNA Cluster Heterochromatin

Zhang, G; Tu, SK; Yu, TX; Zhang, XO; Parhad, SS; Weng, ZP; Theurkauf, WE

Theurkauf, WE (reprint author), Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Program Mol Med, 373 Plantat St, Worcester, MA 01605 USA.; Weng, ZP (reprint author), Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Program Bioinformat & Integrat Biol, 373 Plantat St, Worcester, MA 01605 USA.

CELL REPORTS, 2018; 24 (13): 3413

Abstract

In Drosophila, the piRNAs that guide germline transposon silencing are produced from heterochromatic clusters marked by the HP1 homolog Rhino. We show......

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