New insight into inter-kingdom communication: Horizontal transfer of mobile small RNAs

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Zhou, Geyu ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a   Chen, Xi ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inter kingdom communication; MicroRNA; Mobile RNA; Small interfering RNA; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 159; MICRORNA 168A; MICRORNA 2911; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HOST; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSPORT;

EID: 85019694893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00768     Document Type: Review

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