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  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

René F. Ketting is affiliated with the Institute of Molecular Biology in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including molecular biology, aging, plant science, genetics, and physiology.

The scholar's work touches on key topics such as CRISPR and genetic engineering, genetics, aging and longevity in model organisms, chromosomal and genetic variations, RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and genomics and chromatin dynamics.

Major recent publications by René F. Ketting and collaborators include:

  • "A tudor domain protein, SIMR-1, promotes siRNA production at piRNA-targeted mRNAs in C. elegans," 2020, published in eLife
  • "Concepts and functions of small RNA pathways in C. elegans," 2020, published in Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • "piRNA processing by a trimeric Schlafen-domain nuclease," 2023, published in Nature
  • "Bardet-Biedl syndrome proteins modulate the release of bioactive extracellular vesicles," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Intrinsically disordered protein PID-2 modulates Z granules and is required for heritable piRNA-induced silencing in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo," 2020, published in The EMBO Journal

René F. Ketting frequently collaborates with a network of researchers, including Falk Butter, Emil Karaulanov, Jan Schreier, Sebastian Falk, and António Miguel de Jesus Domingues, each having coauthored multiple papers with them.

Their publications have appeared prominently in several scientific journals, with numerous contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Nature, Nature Communications, and The EMBO Journal.

Recognition of René F. Ketting's contributions includes membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Processing of primary microRNAs by the Microprocessor complex

    Ahmet M. Denli;Bastiaan B. J. Tops;Ronald H. A. Plasterk;René F. Ketting

  • Dicer functions in RNA interference and in synthesis of small RNA involved in developmental timing in C. elegans

    René F. Ketting;Sylvia E.J. Fischer;Emily Bernstein;Titia Sijen

  • A Role for Piwi and piRNAs in Germ Cell Maintenance and Transposon Silencing in Zebrafish

    Saskia Houwing;Leonie M. Kamminga;Eugene Berezikov;Daniela Cronembold

  • mut-7 of C. elegans, Required for Transposon Silencing and RNA Interference, Is a Homolog of Werner Syndrome Helicase and RNaseD

    René F Ketting;Thomas H.A Haverkamp;Henri G.A.M van Luenen;Ronald H.A Plasterk

  • A micrococcal nuclease homologue in RNAi effector complexes

    Amy A. Caudy;René F. Ketting;Scott M. Hammond;Scott M. Hammond;Ahmet M. Denli

  • Targeted Inhibition of miRNA Maturation with Morpholinos Reveals a Role for miR-375 in Pancreatic Islet Development

    Wigard P Kloosterman;Anne K Lagendijk;René F Ketting;Jon D Moulton

  • Metabolic labeling of C. elegans and D. melanogaster for quantitative proteomics

    Jeroen Krijgsveld;René F Ketting;Tokameh Mahmoudi;Tokameh Mahmoudi;Janik Johansen

  • The evolutionary journey of Argonaute proteins

    Daan C Swarts;Kira Makarova;Yanli Wang;Kotaro Nakanishi

  • The Argonaute CSR-1 and Its 22G-RNA Cofactors Are Required for Holocentric Chromosome Segregation

    Julie M. Claycomb;Pedro J. Batista;Ka Ming Pang;Weifeng Gu

  • Piwi and piRNAs Act Upstream of an Endogenous siRNA Pathway to Suppress Tc3 Transposon Mobility in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline

    Partha P. Das;Partha P. Das;Partha P. Das;Marloes P. Bagijn;Marloes P. Bagijn;Leonard D. Goldstein;Julie R. Woolford;Julie R. Woolford

  • The Genetics of RNA Silencing

    Marcel Tijsterman;René F. Ketting;Ronald H. A. Plasterk

  • PIWI-interacting RNAs: from generation to transgenerational epigenetics

    Maartje J. Luteijn;René F. Ketting

  • The many faces of RNAi.

    René F. Ketting;René F. Ketting

  • Substrate requirements for let-7 function in the developing zebrafish embryo.

    Wigard P. Kloosterman;Erno Wienholds;René F. Ketting;Ronald H.A. Plasterk

  • Zili is required for germ cell differentiation and meiosis in zebrafish

    Saskia Houwing;Eugene Berezikov;René F Ketting

  • A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans

    René F. Ketting;Ronald H. A. Plasterk

  • RNA Helicase MUT-14-Dependent Gene Silencing Triggered in C. elegans by Short Antisense RNAs

    Marcel Tijsterman;René F. Ketting;Kristy L. Okihara;Titia Sijen

  • Extremely stable Piwi-induced gene silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Maartje J Luteijn;Petra van Bergeijk;Lucas J T Kaaij;Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida

  • The silence of the genes

    Ronald Ha Plasterk;René F Ketting

  • Hen1 is required for oocyte development and piRNA stability in zebrafish

    Leonie M Kamminga;Maartje J Luteijn;Marjo J den Broeder;Stefan Redl

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald H. A. Plasterk
Ronald H. A. Plasterk University of Amsterdam
Eugene Berezikov
Eugene Berezikov University Medical Center Groningen
Marcel Tijsterman
Marcel Tijsterman Leiden University Medical Center
Helle D. Ulrich
Helle D. Ulrich Institute of Molecular Biology
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge
Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Dominic Grün
Dominic Grün Max Planck Society
Eric A. Miska
Eric A. Miska University of Cambridge
Wigard P. Kloosterman
Wigard P. Kloosterman Utrecht University
Elzo de Wit
Elzo de Wit Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital

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