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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Filipe Tavares-Cadete
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1706 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Molecular cell 20130701 2
Dosage compensation in Drosophila is an epigenetic phenomenon utilizing proteins and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) for transcriptional upregulation of the male X chromosome. Here, by using UV crosslinking followed by deep sequencing, we show that two enzymes in the Male-Specific Lethal complex, MLE RNA helicase and MSL2 ubiquitin ligase, bind evolutionarily conserved domains containing tandem stem-loops in roX1 and roX2 RNAs in vivo. These domains constitute the minimal RNA unit present in multi ...[more]