RNAi-mediated antiviral immunity in mammals

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2018, Pages 9-14

  Berkhout, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; INTERFERON; INTERFERON INDUCED HELICASE C DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1; MICRORNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNITY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NODAMURA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PLANT; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MAMMALS; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 85049793461     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: 18796265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2018.07.008     Document Type: Review

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