| Literature DB >> 23374338 |
John R Bracht1, Wenwen Fang, Aaron David Goldman, Egor Dolzhenko, Elizabeth M Stein, Laura F Landweber.
Abstract
Ciliates are an ancient and diverse group of microbial eukaryotes that have emerged as powerful models for RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance. They possess extensive sets of both tiny and long noncoding RNAs that, together with a suite of proteins that includes transposases, orchestrate a broad cascade of genome rearrangements during somatic nuclear development. This Review emphasizes three important themes: the remarkable role of RNA in shaping genome structure, recent discoveries that unify many deeply diverged ciliate genetic systems, and a surprising evolutionary "sign change" in the role of small RNAs between major species groups.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23374338 PMCID: PMC3725814 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.01.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582