Suppression of RNAi by dsRNA-Degrading RNaseIII Enzymes of Viruses in Animals and Plants

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Weinheimer, Isabel ^a   Jiu, Yaming ^b   Rajamäki, Minna Liisa ^a   Matilainen, Olli ^c   Kallijärvi, Jukka ^b   Cuellar, Wilmer J ^a   Lu, Rui ^d   Saarma, Mart ^b   Holmberg, Carina I ^c   Jäntti, Jussi ^b,e   Valkonen, Jari P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRINIVIRUS; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IRIDOVIRUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ASCOVIRUS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRINIVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLOCK HOUSE VIRUS; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; IRIDOVIRUS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; ROCK BREAM IRIDOVIRUS; TOBACCO RATTLE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRINIVIRUS; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IRIDOVIRUS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOBACCO; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84926453282     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004711     Document Type: Article

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