Journal
MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 954-969Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.07.021
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- Brennecke laboratory
- ERC from the European Union [260711]
- Austrian Science Fund (F.W.F.) [Y 510-B12]
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [Y 510] Funding Source: researchfish
- European Research Council (ERC) [260711] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [W1207] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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In animal gonads, PIWI proteins and their bound 23-30 nt piRNAs guard genome integrity by the sequence specific silencing of transposons. Two branches of piRNA biogenesis, namely primary processing and ping-pong amplification, have been proposed. Despite an overall conceptual understanding of piRNA biogenesis, identity and/or function of the involved players are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate an essential role for the female sterility gene shutdown in piRNA biology. Shutdown, an evolutionarily conserved cochaperone collaborates with Hsp90 during piRNA biogenesis, potentially at the loading step of RNAs into PIWI proteins. We demonstrate that Shutdown is essential for both primary and secondary piRNA populations in Drosophila. An extension of our study to previously described piRNA pathway members revealed three distinct groups of biogenesis factors. Together with data on how PIWI proteins are wired into primary and secondary processing, we propose a unified model for piRNA biogenesis.
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