2016
A widely employed germ cell marker is an ancient disordered protein with reproductive functions in diverse eukaryotes
Carmell M, Dokshin G, Skaletsky H, Hu Y, van Wolfswinkel J, Igarashi K, Bellott D, Nefedov M, Reddien P, Enders G, Uversky V, Mello C, Page D. A widely employed germ cell marker is an ancient disordered protein with reproductive functions in diverse eukaryotes. ELife 2016, 5: e19993. PMID: 27718356, PMCID: PMC5098910, DOI: 10.7554/elife.19993.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDedicated germlineMajor eukaryotic lineagesDNA damage repairGerm cell markersEukaryotic lineagesDiverse eukaryotesEukaryotic evolutionMulticellular organismsMulticellular animalsSexual reproductionEarly eukaryotesGenomic integrityPhylogenetic analysisAncient familyReproductive cellsDamage repairGene expressionEukaryotesHeritable genomeGerm cellsProteinStem cellsGCNAGermlineCell markers
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