Guest list or black list: Heritable small RNAs as immunogenic memories

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 212-220

  Rechavi, Oded ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Inherited immunity; Inherited vaccines; Self versus non self; Small RNA; Transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HERITABLE SMALL RNA; NUCLEAR RNAI DEFECTIVE FACTOR; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PLANT RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNAI DEFECTIVE 1 PROTEIN; SGS3 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SILENCING; HEREDITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OXYTRICHA; PENETRANCE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA AMPLIFICATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSGENERATIONAL SMALL RNA TRANSMISSION; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTION; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGENETIC PHENOMENA; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84897032616     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2013.10.003     Document Type: Review

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