RNA interference is an antiviral defence mechanism in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7053, 2005, Pages 1044-1047

  Wilkins, Courtney ^a   Dishongh, Ryan ^a   Moore, Steve C ^a,b   Whitt, Michael A ^c   Chow, Marie ^a   Machaca, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HARDING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; VIRUSES;

ELEGANS; IMMUNE MECHANISM; PATHOGENS;

RNA;

DEFENSE MECHANISM; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MUTANT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VESICULAR STOMATITIS-INDIANA VIRUS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; RNA VIRUSES; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 23944506289     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03957     Document Type: Article

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