The emergence of piRNAs against transposon invasion to preserve mammalian genome integrity

C Ernst, DT Odom, C Kutter - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) contribute to the large amount of repetitive sequences in
mammalian genomes and have been linked to species-specific genome innovations by …

Rapid evolution and conserved function of the piRNA pathway

SS Parhad, WE Theurkauf - Royal Society Open Biology, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Transposons are major genome constituents that can mobilize and trigger mutations, DNA
breaks and chromosome rearrangements. Transposon silencing is particularly important in …

[HTML][HTML] Large Drosophila germline piRNA clusters are evolutionarily labile and dispensable for transposon regulation

D Gebert, LK Neubert, C Lloyd, J Gui, R Lehmann… - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
PIWI proteins and their guiding Piwi-interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) are crucial for fertility
and transposon defense in the animal germline. In most species, the majority of piRNAs are …

The evolutionarily conserved piRNA-producing locus pi6 is required for male mouse fertility

PH Wu, Y Fu, K Cecchini, DM Özata, A Arif, T Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Pachytene PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), which comprise> 80% of small RNAs
in the adult mouse testis, have been proposed to bind and regulate target RNAs like …

Formation of spermatogonia and fertile oocytes in golden hamsters requires piRNAs

Z Loubalova, H Fulka, F Horvat, J Pasulka, R Malik… - Nature Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) support the germline by suppressing retrotransposons.
Studies of the pathway in mice have strongly shaped the view that mammalian piRNAs are …

Small RNA sequencing revealed dysregulated piRNAs in Alzheimer's disease and their probable role in pathogenesis

J Roy, A Sarkar, S Parida, Z Ghosh, B Mallick - Molecular BioSystems, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs),∼ 23–36 nucleotide-long small non-coding RNAs, earlier
believed to be germline-specific, have now been identified in somatic cells including neural …

Rapid evolution of piRNA clusters in the Drosophila melanogaster ovary

SP Srivastav, C Feschotte, AG Clark - Genome Research, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
The piRNA pathway is a highly conserved mechanism to repress transposable element (TE)
activity in the animal germline via a specialized class of small RNAs called piwi-interacting …

The birth of piRNAs: how mammalian piRNAs are produced, originated, and evolved

YH Sun, B Lee, XZ Li - Mammalian Genome, 2022 - Springer
Abstract PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), small noncoding RNAs 24–35 nucleotides long,
are essential for animal fertility. They play critical roles in a range of functions, including …

A review of discovery profiling of PIWI-interacting RNAs and their diverse functions in metazoans

S Huang, K Yoshitake, S Asakawa - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) that
perform crucial biological functions in metazoans and defend against transposable elements …

The absence of core piRNA biogenesis factors does not impact efficient transposon silencing in Drosophila

S Chary, R Hayashi - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Organisms require mechanisms to distinguish self and non-self-RNA. This distinction is
crucial to initiate the biogenesis of Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs). In Drosophila ovaries …