Scavenger receptor mediates systemic RNA interference in ticks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Aung, Kyaw Min ^a,b   Boldbaatar, Damdinsuren ^b   Umemiya Shirafuji, Rika ^b   Liao, Min ^b   Xuenan, Xuan ^c   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^c   Galay, Remil ^a,b   Tanaka, Tetsuya ^a,b   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a,b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VITELLOGENIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; EGG PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HATCHING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDGUT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OVARY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE SILENCING; OVARY; RABBITS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, SCAVENGER; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 82555195192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028407     Document Type: Article

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