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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans
SUBMITTER: Jiajia Wang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-56274 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Wang Jia-Jia JJ Cui Dong-Ya DY Xiao Tengfei T Sun Xubin X Zhang Peng P Chen Runsheng R He Shunmin S Huang Da-Wei DW
BMC genomics 20140430
<h4>Background</h4>In metazoans, Piwi-related Argonaute proteins play important roles in maintaining germline integrity and fertility and have been linked to a class of germline-enriched small RNAs termed piRNAs. Caenorhabditis elegans encodes two Piwi family proteins called PRG-1 and PRG-2, and PRG-1 interacts with the C. elegans piRNAs (21U-RNAs). Previous studies found that mutation of prg-1 causes a marked reduction in the expression of 21U-RNAs, temperature-sensitive defects in fertility an ...[more]