RNA interference pathways in fungi: Mechanisms and functions

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2012, Pages 305-323

  Chang, Shwu Shin ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Liu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurospora; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; small noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BUDDING; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MEIOSIS; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUELLING; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS INFECTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84870487730     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092611-150138     Document Type: Review

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