RNA Clamping by Vasa Assembles a Pirna Amplifier Complex on Transposon Transcripts.
Xiol, J., Spinelli, P., Laussmann, M.A., Homolka, D., Yang, Z., Cora, E., Coute, Y., Conn, S., Kadlec, J., Sachidanandam, R., Kaksonen, M., Cusack, S., Ephrussi, A., Pillai, R.S.(2014) Cell 157: 1698
- PubMed: 24910301 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.018
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4D25, 4D26 - PubMed Abstract: 
Germline-specific Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) protect animal genomes against transposons and are essential for fertility. piRNAs targeting active transposons are amplified by the ping-pong cycle, which couples Piwi endonucleolytic slicing of target RNAs to biogenesis of new piRNAs ...