Characterizing the roles of Cryphonectria parasitica RNA-dependent RNA polymerase-like genes in antiviral defense, viral recombination and transposon transcript accumulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Dong Xiu ^a   Spiering, Martin J ^a   Nuss, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P29; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSPOSON;

AGL2 GENE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; DCL2 GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RDR1 GENE; RDR2 GENE; RDR4 GENE; RNA RECOMBINATION; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCETES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY;

CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA VIRUSES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84907495072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108653     Document Type: Article

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