Small RNA-Based Antiviral Defense in the Phytopathogenic Fungus Colletotrichum higginsianum

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Campo, Sonia ^a,b   Gilbert, Kerrigan B ^a   Carrington, James C ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER;

ARTICLE; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM HIGGINSIANUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SILENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COLLETOTRICHUM; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUSES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84978790885     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005640     Document Type: Article

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