Scan RNA

Spt5 is a conserved and essential transcriptional regulator that binds directly to RNA polymerase and is involved in… (More)

Short noncoding (snc)RNAs are important new players in the landscape of biologics with therapeutic potential. Recently, we… (More)

In the ciliate Paramecium, transposable elements and their single-copy remnants are deleted during the development of somatic… (More)

Scan RNAs (scnRNAs) are developmentally regulated siRNAs of ~26-32 nucleotides in length that are involved in programmed DNA… (More)

During the development of the somatic genome from the Paramecium germline genome the bulk of the copies of ∼45 000 unique… (More)

The various properties of small RNAs, such as length, terminal nucleotide, thermodynamic asymmetry and duplex mismatches, can… (More)

The ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena undergoes extensive programmed DNA elimination when the germline micronucleus produces the new… (More)

Small RNAs approximately 20-30 nucleotides (nt) in length regulate gene expression at the transcriptional and post… (More)

Tetrahymena eliminates micronuclear-limited sequences from the developing macronucleus during sexual reproduction. Homology… (More)

The germline genome of ciliates is extensively rearranged during the development of a new somatic macronucleus from the germline… (More)