The nuclear piRNA pathway safeguards genome integrity in the germline by silencing transposable elements. Three recent studies have identified new players in the mammalian pathway. Two of these, TEX15 and SPOCD1, might provide a link between piRNA-guided complexes that recognize genomic targets and the molecular machinery that induces DNA methylation and transcriptional repression during mouse spermatogenesis.
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Ninova, M., Fejes Tóth, K. New players on the piRNA field. Nat Struct Mol Biol 27, 777–779 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-020-0484-7
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