Article

[Regulation of fertility by the small RNA pathway that defends the genome against transposons].

Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Male Reproduction and Heredity, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518036, China.
Hereditas (Beijing) 01/2010; 32(1):11-6. pp.11-6
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Small RNAs can silence transposons at transcriptional or post-transcriptional level. Newly identified small RNAs (e.g., piRNAs and endo-siRNAs) can repress the activity of transposons. Drosophila piRNAs, mouse piRNAs, mouse endo-siRNAs, and their related proteins are expressed primarily within the germline. This suggests that the small RNA pathway plays an important role in transposon silencing of the germline. Recent studies revealed the connection between small RNAs, transposon silencing, and the regulation of fertility, but the mechanism has not been clarified in detail. In this review, the advances in the control of genomic transposon activity and the regulation of fertility by the small RNA pathway were summarized and discussed.

0 0
 · 
0 Bookmarks
 · 
30 Views

Full-text

View
0 Downloads
Available from

Keywords

Drosophila piRNAs
 
endo-siRNAs
 
genomic transposon activity
 
germline
 
mouse endo-siRNAs
 
mouse piRNAs
 
piRNAs
 
post-transcriptional level
 
related proteins
 
small RNA pathway
 
small RNAs
 
transposon
 
transposons