ArticleCell reports2020
A Small-RNA-Mediated Feedback Loop Maintains Proper Levels of 22G-RNAs in C. elegans.
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- DivergenteLife · 2026Article
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- AMPK tunes reproductive gene expression and small RNA homeostasis to mediate timely germ cell development.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Immunogenicity Assessment for siRNA Therapeutics: A Risk-Based Proposal for Event-Driven Testing.The AAPS journal · 2026Review
- AMPK modulates a DEAH box RNA-helicase to attenuate TOR signaling and establish developmental quiescence in Caenorhabditis elegans.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Distinct regulatory mechanisms by the nuclear Argonautes HRDE-1 and NRDE-3 in the soma of Caenorhabditis elegans.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Selecting genes for analysis using historically contingent progress: from RNA changes to protein-protein interactions.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Selecting genes for analysis using historically contingent progress: from RNA changes to protein-protein interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Transposon-mediated genic rearrangements underlie variation in small RNA pathways.Science advances · 2024Article
- Small RNA-mediated genetic switches coordinate ALG-3/4 small RNA pathway function.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- smalldisco, a pipeline for siRNA discovery and 3' tail identification.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- The Caenorhabditis elegans TDRD5/7-like protein, LOTR-1, interacts with the helicase ZNFX-1 to balance epigenetic signals in the germline.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Review
- Germ Granules Allow Transmission of Small RNA-Based Parental Responses in the "Germ Plasm".iScience · 2020Review
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Abstract
RNA interference (RNAi) is an essential regulatory mechanism in all animals. In Caenorhabditis elegans, several classes of small RNAs act to silence or license expression of mRNA targets. ERI-6/7 is required for the production of some endogenous small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and acts as a negative regulator of the exogenous RNAi pathway. We find that the genomic locus encoding eri-6/7 contains two distinct regions that are targeted by endogenous siRNAs. Loss of these siRNAs disrupts eri-6/7 mRNA expression, resulting in increased production of siRNAs from other small RNA pathways because these pathways compete with eri-6/7-dependent transcripts for access to the downstream siRNA amplification machinery. Thus, the pathway acts like a small-RNA-mediated feedback loop to ensure homeostasis of gene expression by small RNA pathways. Similar feedback loops that maintain chromatin homeostasis have been identified in yeast and Drosophila melanogaster, suggesting an evolutionary conservation of feedback mechanisms in gene regulatory pathways.
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