Cross-species comparative analysis of Dicer proteins during Sindbis virus infection

In plants and invertebrates RNA silencing is a major defense mechanism against virus infections. The first event in RNA silencing is dicing of long double stranded RNAs into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). The Dicer proteins involved in this process are phylogenetically conserved and have the same...

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Main Authors: Girardi, Erika, Lefèvre, Mathieu, Chane-Woon-Ming, Béatrice, Paro, Simona, Claydon, Bill, Imler, Jean-Luc, Meignin, Carine, Pfeffer, Sébastien
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448662/