2016
Tudor-SN Interacts with Piwi Antagonistically in Regulating Spermatogenesis but Synergistically in Silencing Transposons in Drosophila
Ku HY, Gangaraju VK, Qi H, Liu N, Lin H. Tudor-SN Interacts with Piwi Antagonistically in Regulating Spermatogenesis but Synergistically in Silencing Transposons in Drosophila. PLOS Genetics 2016, 12: e1005813. PMID: 26808625, PMCID: PMC4726654, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005813.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPiRNA biogenesisPrimordial germ cellsPiwi expressionTudor-SNSomatic cellsGerm cellsDiverse molecular functionsPost-transcriptional regulationEmbryonic somatic cellsPiwi mutantsDosage-dependent mannerGermline developmentPIWI proteinsMutant phenotypeMeiotic cytokinesisMolecular functionsSpliceosome assemblyPiwiEpigenetic programmingDiverse functionsBiological functionsAdult ovariesBiogenesisTransposonMale fertility
2006
Sex-lethal is a target of Bruno-mediated translational repression in promoting the differentiation of stem cell progeny during Drosophila oogenesis
Wang Z, Lin H. Sex-lethal is a target of Bruno-mediated translational repression in promoting the differentiation of stem cell progeny during Drosophila oogenesis. Developmental Biology 2006, 302: 160-168. PMID: 17067567, PMCID: PMC1904479, DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.09.016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBruno response elementCystoblast differentiationTranslational repressionElectrophoresis mobility shift assaysGermline stem cellsPotential mRNA targetsMobility shift assaysStem cell progenySex-lethalDrosophila ovaryDrosophila oogenesisMutant phenotypeBioinformatics approachMRNA targetsShift assaysType RNACDNA constructsUntranslated regionCell progenyResponse elementStem cellsNovel targetDifferentiationRepressionMS11