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The Genetics of RNA Silencing

Annual Review of Genetics, 2002
▪ Abstract  Although initially recognized as a handy tool to reduce gene expression, RNA silencing, triggered by double-stranded RNA molecules, is now recognized as a mechanism for cellular protection and cleansing: It defends the genome against molecular parasites such as viruses and transposons, while removing abundant but aberrant nonfunctional ...
René Ketting   +2 more
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RNA Silencing in Plants

open access: yes, 2010
RNA silencing-related mechanisms have been documented in almost all living organisms and RNA silencing is now used as board term to describe the vast array of related processes involving RNA-RNA, RNA-DNA, RNA-protein or protein-protein interactions that ultimately result in the repression of gene expression.
Eamens, Andrew   +2 more
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Viral suppressors of RNA silencing

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2001
The suppression of RNA silencing by plant viruses represents a viral adaptation to a novel host antiviral defense. Three types of viral suppressors have been identified through the use of a variety of silencing suppression assays. The first two types of suppressor are capable of a complete or partial reversal of pre-existing RNA silencing; the third ...
W X Li, S W Ding
exaly   +3 more sources

RNA-triggered gene silencing

Trends in Genetics, 1999
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) has recently been shown to trigger sequence-specific gene silencing in a wide variety of organisms, including nematodes, plants, trypanosomes, fruit flies and planaria; meanwhile an as yet uncharacterized RNA trigger has been shown to induce DNA methylation in several different plant systems.
Andrew Fire
exaly   +3 more sources

Geminiviruses and RNA silencing

Trends in Plant Science, 2005
Geminiviruses are single-stranded circular DNA viruses that cause economically significant diseases in a wide range of crop plants worldwide. In plants, post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) acts as a natural anti-viral defense system and plays a role in genome maintenance and development.
Ramachandran, Vanitharani   +2 more
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RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in RNA silencing

Biological Chemistry, 2011
Abstract RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs) synthesize double-stranded RNAs that are processed into small RNAs and mediate gene silencing. Viral RdRPs and cellular RdRPs show little structural homology to each other. Cellular RdRPs play key roles in RNA silencing by producing complementary strands for target RNAs via Dicer-dependent and -
Yoshiko, Maida, Kenkichi, Masutomi
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RNA silencing

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2000
Gene silencing through the increased degradation of mRNA appears to represent a novel cellular pathway that is functional in a broad range of organisms. Recent work has established a role for RNA silencing in host antiviral defense and transposon silencing, suggesting a potential application in plant functional genomics.
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