The Tudor domain protein Tapas, a homolog of the vertebrate Tdrd7, functions in the piRNA pathway to regulate retrotransposons in germline of Drosophila melanogaster

• Main Authors: Patil, Veena S., Anand, Amit, Chakrabarti, Alisha, Kai, Toshie
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Germline; Nuage
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84728; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41970
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a special class of small RNAs that provide defense against transposable elements in animal germline cells. In Drosophila, germline piRNAs are thought to be processed at a unique perinuclear structure, the nuage, that houses piRNA pathway proteins including the Piwi...