Volume 23, No 1, Jan 2013
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 23 Issue 1, January 2013: 18-19
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
A load of small RNAs in the sperm - how many bits of hereditary information?
Jafar Kiani1,2,3 and Minoo Rassoulzadegan1,2,3
1Inserm, U1091, Nice, F-06108, France
2CNRS, UMR7277, F-06108, France
3University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UFR Sciences, Nice, F-06108, France
Correspondence: Minoo Rassoulzadegan(minoo@unice.fr)
Transcriptionally silent sperm contains a variety of RNA fragments of both coding and non-coding transcripts. A recent article by Peng and colleagues reveals several new families of small RNAs enriched in sperm, which are derived from the same locus as tRNAs. The finding of these short fragments of tRNA in the sperm raises once again the question of the possible function(s) of such a miniaturized form of information carried by the spermatozoon.
Cell Research (2013) 23:18-19. doi:10.1038/cr.2012.181; published online 25 December 2012
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