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Ancient and novel small RNA pathways compensate for the loss of piRNAs in multiple independent nematode lineages.
| العنوان: | Ancient and novel small RNA pathways compensate for the loss of piRNAs in multiple independent nematode lineages. |
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| المؤلفون: | Peter Sarkies, Murray E Selkirk, John T Jones, Vivian Blok, Thomas Boothby, Bob Goldstein, Ben Hanelt, Alex Ardila-Garcia, Naomi M Fast, Phillip M Schiffer, Christopher Kraus, Mark J Taylor, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Mark L Blaxter, Eric A Miska |
| المصدر: | PLoS Biology, Vol 13, Iss 2, p e1002061 (2015) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Biology (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| الوصف: | Small RNA pathways act at the front line of defence against transposable elements across the Eukaryota. In animals, Piwi interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) are a crucial arm of this defence. However, the evolutionary relationships among piRNAs and other small RNA pathways targeting transposable elements are poorly resolved. To address this question we sequenced small RNAs from multiple, diverse nematode species, producing the first phylum-wide analysis of how small RNA pathways evolve. Surprisingly, despite their prominence in Caenorhabditis elegans and closely related nematodes, piRNAs are absent in all other nematode lineages. We found that there are at least two evolutionarily distinct mechanisms that compensate for the absence of piRNAs, both involving RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs). Whilst one pathway is unique to nematodes, the second involves Dicer-dependent RNA-directed DNA methylation, hitherto unknown in animals, and bears striking similarity to transposon-control mechanisms in fungi and plants. Our results highlight the rapid, context-dependent evolution of small RNA pathways and suggest piRNAs in animals may have replaced an ancient eukaryotic RNA-dependent RNA polymerase pathway to control transposable elements. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1544-9173 1545-7885 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1544-9173; https://doaj.org/toc/1545-7885 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002061 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/601dc193696d4431b695f3cd4f773700 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.601dc193696d4431b695f3cd4f773700 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 15449173 15457885 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002061 |