2014
MUT-14 and SMUT-1 DEAD Box RNA Helicases Have Overlapping Roles in Germline RNAi and Endogenous siRNA Formation
Phillips C, Montgomery B, Breen P, Roovers E, Rim Y, Ohsumi T, Newman M, van Wolfswinkel J, Ketting R, Ruvkun G, Montgomery T. MUT-14 and SMUT-1 DEAD Box RNA Helicases Have Overlapping Roles in Germline RNAi and Endogenous siRNA Formation. Current Biology 2014, 24: 839-844. PMID: 24684932, PMCID: PMC4010136, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.060.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsBase SequenceCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsDEAD-box RNA HelicasesFluoroimmunoassayGerm CellsImmunoprecipitationMolecular Sequence DataReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNAConceptsSiRNA formationMutator fociClass genesDEAD-box RNA helicasesBox RNA helicasesElegans genesEndogenous siRNAsSiRNA amplificationMutant displaysP granulesNuclear peripheryRNA helicasesMissense mutantsMutant proteinsDouble mutantMUT-16Target mRNAsRNAiGerm cellsGenesEarly stepsGermline genesSiRNAsMutantsWidespread loss
2009
CDE-1 Affects Chromosome Segregation through Uridylation of CSR-1-Bound siRNAs
van Wolfswinkel JC, Claycomb JM, Batista PJ, Mello CC, Berezikov E, Ketting RF. CDE-1 Affects Chromosome Segregation through Uridylation of CSR-1-Bound siRNAs. Cell 2009, 139: 135-148. PMID: 19804759, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.09.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCDE-1Chromosome segregationCSR-1RNAi pathwaySimilar sorting mechanismsMitotic chromosome segregationEndogenous RNAi pathwaysEGO-1Argonaute proteinsMitotic chromosomesSiRNA levelsC. elegansConserved natureSorting mechanismSiRNAsUridylationChromosomesInappropriate loadingProteinPathwaySegregationElegansRNAiMammalsGenes