Browsing by Author "Massari, Serafina"
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The Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein participates in the piRNA pathway
Bozzetti, Maria Pia; Specchia, Valeria; Cattenoz, Pierre B.; Laneve, Pietro; Geusa, Annamaria; Şahin, H. Bahar; Di Tommaso, Silvia D.; Friscini, Antonella; Massari, Serafina; Diebold, Celine; Giangrande, Angela (Company of Biologists Ltd, 2015)RNA metabolism controls multiple biological processes and a specific class of small RNAs called piRNAs act as genome guardians by silencing the expression of transposons and repetitive sequences in the gonads. Defects in ...