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Specialized piRNA Pathways Act in Germline and Somatic Tissues of the Drosophila Ovary

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Malone, Colin D., Brennecke, Julius, Dus, Monica, Stark, Alexander, McCombie, W. Richard, Sachidanandam, Ravi, Hannon, Gregory J.·2009·Cell

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SUMMARY In Drosophila gonads, Piwi proteins and associated piRNAs collaborate with additional factors to form a small RNA-based immune system that silences mobile elements. Here, we analyzed nine Drosophila piRNA pathway mutants for their impacts on both small RNA populations and the subcellular localization patterns of Piwi proteins. We find that distinct piRNA pathways with differing components function in ovarian germ and somatic cells. In the soma, Piwi acts singularly with the conserved flamenco piRNA cluster to enforce silencing of retroviral elements that may propagate by infecting neighboring germ cells. In the germline, silencing programs encoded within piRNA clusters are optimized via a slicer-dependent amplification loop to suppress a broad spectrum of elements. The classes of transposons targeted by germline and somatic piRNA clusters, though not the precise elements, are conserved among Drosophilids, demonstrating that the architecture of piRNA clusters has coevolved with the transposons that they are tasked to control.

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Authors
Malone, C. D., Brennecke, J., Dus, M., Stark, A., McCombie, W. R., Sachidanandam, R., & Hannon, G. J.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-05
Volume
137
Issue
3
Pages
522-535
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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W2113377893
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863
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FWCI
82.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Malone, C. D., Brennecke, J., Dus, M., Stark, A., McCombie, W. R., Sachidanandam, R., & Hannon, G. J. (2009). Specialized piRNA Pathways Act in Germline and Somatic Tissues of the Drosophila Ovary. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.03.040

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