A complex small rna repertoire is generated by a plant/fungal-like machinery and effected by a metazoan-like argonaute in the single-cell human parasite toxoplasma gondii

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Braun, Laurence ^a   Cannella, Dominique ^a   Ortet, Philippe ^b   Barakat, Mohamed ^b   Sautel, Céline F ^a   Kieffer, Sylvie ^c   Garin, Jérôme ^c   Bastien, Olivier ^a   Voinnet, Olivier ^d   Hakimi, Mohamed Ali ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLYSOME; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA METABOLISM; STOICHIOMETRY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSLATION REGULATION; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; METAZOA; PROTISTA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

CELLS, CULTURED; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 77954063506     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000920     Document Type: Article

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