Vasily V. Vagin

A Distinct Small RNA Pathway Silences Selfish Genetic Elements in the Germline

Vasily V. Vagin, Alla A. Sigova, Chengjian Li et al. · Science · 2006 · 1.3K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +17

The Drosophila RNA Methyltransferase, DmHen1, Modifies Germline piRNAs and Single-Stranded siRNAs in RISC

Michael D. Horwich, Chengjian Li, Christian B. Matranga et al. · Current Biology · 2007 · 551 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +11

Collapse of Germline piRNAs in the Absence of Argonaute3 Reveals Somatic piRNAs in Flies

Chengjian Li, Vasily V. Vagin, Soohyun Lee et al. · Cell · 2009 · 547 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +12

Normal microRNA Maturation and Germ-Line Stem Cell Maintenance Requires Loquacious, a Double-Stranded RNA-Binding Domain Protein

Klaus Förstemann, Yukihide Tomari, Tingting Du et al. · PLoS Biology · 2005 · 543 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +16

Proteomic analysis of murine Piwi proteins reveals a role for arginine methylation in specifying interaction with Tudor family members

Vasily V. Vagin, James A. Wohlschlegel, Jun Qu et al. · Genes & Development · 2009 · 315 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +14