Search for limiting factors in the RNAi pathway in silkmoth tissues and the Bm5 cell line: The RNA-binding proteins R2D2 and translin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Swevers, Luc ^a   Liu, Jisheng ^b   Huvenne, Hanneke ^b   Smagghe, Guy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN R2D2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INSECT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN BM5; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LIPOPHILICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; TRIBOLIUM; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CELL LINE; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 79957538502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020250     Document Type: Article

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