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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Jessica Svard
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-22073 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nordstrand Line M LM Furu Kari K Paulsen Jonas J Rognes Torbjørn T Klungland Arne A
Nucleic acids research 20120910 21
Piwi proteins and Piwi-interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) have known functions in transposon silencing in the male germline of fetal and newborn mice. Both are also present in adult testes; however, their function here remains a mystery. Here, we confirm that most piRNAs in meiotic spermatocytes originate from clusters in non-repeat intergenic regions of DNA. The regulation of these piRNA clusters, including the processing of the precursor transcripts into individual piRNAs, is accomplished through ...[more]