The reverse transcriptase-RNase H: From viruses to antiviral defense

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1341, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 126-135

  Moelling, Karin ^a,b,c   Broecker, Felix ^a,b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous viruses; Evolution; Gene silencing; Orthologous immune systems; RT RNases H

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CASPASE 9; DICER; INTEGRASE; INTERFERON; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSPOSASE; DNA; RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS; RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUSES;

EID: 84926138807     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12668     Document Type: Article

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