RNA silencing suppressors: How viruses fight back

Future Virology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-133

  Shi, Yan ^a,b   Gu, Mei ^c   Fan, Zaifeng ^a,b   Hong, Yiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antiviral RNA silencing; Getaway of silencing; Protein suppressor of RNA silencing; RNA mediated silencing suppression

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; MYCOLOGY; NODAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI;

EID: 40749145704     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460794.3.2.125     Document Type: Review

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