2015
Reassessment of Piwi Binding to the Genome and Piwi Impact on RNA Polymerase II Distribution
Lin H, Chen M, Kundaje A, Valouev A, Yin H, Liu N, Neuenkirchen N, Zhong M, Snyder M. Reassessment of Piwi Binding to the Genome and Piwi Impact on RNA Polymerase II Distribution. Developmental Cell 2015, 32: 772-774. PMID: 25805139, PMCID: PMC4472434, DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.03.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsArgonaute ProteinsBase SequenceBinding SitesChromatin ImmunoprecipitationChromobox Protein Homolog 5Chromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA-Binding ProteinsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsGenomeHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHistone MethyltransferasesHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseMethyltransferasesRNA InterferenceRNA Polymerase IIRNA, Small InterferingSequence Analysis, DNAConceptsRNA polymerase II distributionGenomic targetsHeterochromatin protein 1aRNA polymerase IICurrent bioinformatics methodsPiwi mutantsDrosophila PiwiPolymerase IIDevelopmental cellsPericentric regionsHistone methyltransferaseBioinformatics methodsBioinformatics pipelineProtein 1APiwiGenomePiRNAsEuchromatinMutantsMethyltransferaseSites
2013
Function of Piwi, a nuclear Piwi/Argonaute protein, is independent of its slicer activity
Darricarrère N, Liu N, Watanabe T, Lin H. Function of Piwi, a nuclear Piwi/Argonaute protein, is independent of its slicer activity. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2013, 110: 1297-1302. PMID: 23297219, PMCID: PMC3557079, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213283110.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPIWI proteinsPiRNA biogenesisSlicer activityPIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) biogenesisEndonuclease activityFunction of PiwiNuclear Piwi proteinSecondary piRNA biogenesisGerm line developmentPiwi functionPiwi membersArgonaute proteinsRNA biogenesisArgonaute 3Transgenic fliesPiwiSomatic cellsCatalytic triadEpigenetic factorsRegulatory functionsBiogenesisOnly memberProteinTransposonRecent evidence
2010
Identification of Piwil2-Like (PL2L) Proteins that Promote Tumorigenesis
Ye Y, Yin DT, Chen L, Zhou Q, Shen R, He G, Yan Q, Tong Z, Issekutz AC, Shapiro CL, Barsky SH, Lin H, Li JJ, Gao JX. Identification of Piwil2-Like (PL2L) Proteins that Promote Tumorigenesis. PLOS ONE 2010, 5: e13406. PMID: 20975993, PMCID: PMC2958115, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013406.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsArgonaute ProteinsBase SequenceCell Line, TumorCell Transformation, NeoplasticDNA PrimersFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsNF-kappa BPrecancerous ConditionsProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA InterferenceRNA, MessengerSTAT3 Transcription FactorStem CellsTransplantation, HeterologousUp-RegulationConceptsGermline stem cellsStem cellsAGO gene familyCell cycle entryPrecancerous stem cellsTumor developmentTumor cell survivalBCL2 gene expressionGene familyCycle entryGene expressionTumor cellsNF-κBCell survivalAnticancer drug developmentPIWIL2S phaseGene exonsNovel insightsProteinMouse tumor cellsCancer developmentNovel monoclonal antibodyTranscriptsTypes of humanDynamic transcriptomes during neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells revealed by short, long, and paired-end sequencing
Wu JQ, Habegger L, Noisa P, Szekely A, Qiu C, Hutchison S, Raha D, Egholm M, Lin H, Weissman S, Cui W, Gerstein M, Snyder M. Dynamic transcriptomes during neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells revealed by short, long, and paired-end sequencing. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2010, 107: 5254-5259. PMID: 20194744, PMCID: PMC2841935, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914114107.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeural differentiationUndifferentiated hESCsNeural fate specificationCell identity maintenanceStage-specific regulationHuman embryonic stem cellsTypes of genesPaired-end sequencingDifferentiation of hESCsEmbryonic stem cellsPaired-end readsNeural cell differentiationSplicing dynamicsFate specificationDynamic transcriptomeIsoform diversityTranscriptome changesUnannotated transcriptsGene transcriptionRNA sequencingStages of differentiationNeural lineagesCell differentiationDifferential expressionGliogenic potential