New roles for large and small viral RNAs in evading host defences

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 503-507

  Sullivan, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADENOVIRUS; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUSES;

EID: 45549083208     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2349     Document Type: Review

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