Virus-Encoded microRNAs: An Overview and a Look to the Future

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Kincaid, Rodney P ^a   Sullivan, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; MICRORNA;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HERPES VIRUS; HOMEOSTASIS AND REGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUSES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872021739     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003018     Document Type: Article

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