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SUBMITTER: Ichiyanagi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4231750 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ichiyanagi Tomoko T Ichiyanagi Kenji K Ogawa Ayako A Kuramochi-Miyagawa Satomi S Nakano Toru T Chuma Shinichiro S Sasaki Hiroyuki H Udono Heiichiro H
Nucleic acids research 20140927 19
HSP90, found in all kingdoms of life, is a major chaperone protein regulating many client proteins. We demonstrated that HSP90α, one of two paralogs duplicated in vertebrates, plays an important role in the biogenesis of fetal PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNA), which act against the transposon activities, in mouse male germ cells. The knockout mutation of Hsp90α resulted in a large reduction in the expression of primary and secondary piRNAs and mislocalization of MIWI2, a PIWI homolog. Whereas the m ...[more]