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. 2023 Oct 2;14:6137. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41881-8

Fig. 6. Proposed piRNA function in transgenic animals.

Fig. 6

In α-syn(A53T)Tg and AβTg;α-syn(A53T)Tg strains, piRNA dysregulation upregulates H3K9me3 to silence and/or directly target protein degradation genes which cause α-syn accumulation. After blocking piRNA biogenesis by knocking out the tofu-1 gene, piRNAs downregulate and decrease H3K9me3, while protein degradation gene expression increases, which improves the activity of protein degradation and decreases α-syn expression in C. elegans.