The intron in centromeric noncoding RNA facilitates RNAi-mediated formation of heterochromatin

• Masatoshi Mutazono,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Misato Morita,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Chihiro Tsukahara,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Madoka Chinen,

  Current address: API Co., Ltd., Kanohsakurada-cho, Gifu, Japan.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Shiori Nishioka,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Tatsuhiro Yumikake,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Kohei Dohke,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Chromosome Function and Regulation, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Misuzu Sakamoto,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Takashi Ideue,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Jun-ichi Nakayama,

  Affiliations Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, Division of Chromatin Regulation, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

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• Kojiro Ishii,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Chromosome Function and Regulation, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tokio Tani

  * E-mail: ttani@sci.kumamoto-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-5541

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