Uniting Germline and Stem Cells: The Function of Piwi Proteins and the piRNA Pathway in Diverse Organisms
Juliano C, Wang J, Lin H. Uniting Germline and Stem Cells: The Function of Piwi Proteins and the piRNA Pathway in Diverse Organisms. Annual Review Of Genetics 2011, 45: 447-469. PMID: 21942366, PMCID: PMC3832951, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132541.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPIWI-interacting RNAsPIWI proteinsDiverse organismsStem cellsArgonaute protein familyPIWI-piRNA pathwayStem cell maintenanceSomatic stem/progenitor cellsAdult stem cellsStem/progenitor cellsPiRNA pathwayGermline specificationAnimal phylogenyGenome integrityProtein familyPosttranscriptional regulationCell maintenanceProtein bindsSomatic cellsEpigenetic programmingGermlineProgenitor cellsProteinOrganismsCommon mechanism