Small RNA Profiling in Dengue Virus 2-Infected Aedes Mosquito Cells Reveals Viral piRNAs and Novel Host miRNAs

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Miesen, Pascal ^a   Ivens, Alasdair ^b   Buck, Amy H ^b   van Rij, Ronald P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 2; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SMALL RNA PROFILING; VIRUS GENOME; WESTERN BLOTTING; AEDES; ANIMAL; DENGUE VIRUS; GENETICS; INSECT VECTOR; METABOLISM; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DENGUE VIRUS; INSECT VECTORS; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84959274365     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004452     Document Type: Article

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