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Transgenerational functions of small RNA pathways in controlling gene expression in C. elegans.

Thomas M Guerin, Francesca Palladino, and Valerie J Robert (2014)

Epigenetics, 9(1):37-44.

RNA silencing processes use exogenous or endogenous RNA molecules to specifically and robustly regulate gene expression. In C. elegans, initial mechanistic descriptions of the different silencing processes focused on posttranscriptionalregulation. In this review, we discuss recent work showing that, in this model organism, RNA silencing also controls the transcription of target genes by inducing heterochromatin formation. Specifically, it has been shown that ribonucleoprotein complexes containing small RNAs, either processed from exogenous dsRNA or synthesized from the genome itself, and proteins of the Argonaute family, mediate the deposition of repressive histone marks at the targeted loci. Interestingly, the accumulation of repressive marks is required for the inheritance of the silencing effect and the establishment of an epigenetic memory that discriminates self- from non-self-RNAs.

 
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