RNA toxins: Mediators of stress adaptation and pathogen defense

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 890-903

  Zhabokritsky, Alice ^a   Kutky, Meherzad ^a   Burns, Lydia A ^a   Karran, Rajita A ^a   Hudak, Katalin A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTICODON NUCLEASE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN; TOXIN;

ANTICODON; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STRESS ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RNA CLEAVAGE;

FUNGI;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEASES; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS; RNA; RNA CLEAVAGE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857757093     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.99     Document Type: Review

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