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Antiviral Immunity Directed by Small RNAs

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The proteins required for viRNA production as well as several key downstream components of the antiviral immunity pathway have been identified in plants, flies, and worms, illuminating an ongoing molecular arms race that likely impacts the evolution of both viral and host genomes.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2007-08-10 and is currently open access. It has received 1431 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: RNA silencing & RNA.

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RNA-based antiviral immunity

TL;DR: Recent studies on the features of viral siRNAs and other virus-derived small RNAs from virus-infected fungi, plants, insects, nematodes and vertebrates are reviewed and the innate and adaptive properties of RNA-based antiviral immunity are discussed.
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RNA interference in Lepidoptera: An overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design

Olle Terenius, +78 more
TL;DR: Despite a large variation in the data, trends that are found are that RNAi is particularly successful in the family Saturniidae and in genes involved in immunity and that gene expression in epidermal tissues seems to be most difficult to silence.
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On the road to reading the RNA-interference code.

TL;DR: The finding that sequence-specific gene silencing occurs in response to the presence of double-stranded RNAs has had an enormous impact on biology, uncovering an unsuspected level of regulation of gene expression.
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Immunity in Drosophila melanogaster — from microbial recognition to whole-organism physiology

TL;DR: The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been used to understand how the immune response is regulated and coordinated at the level of the whole organism, and recent studies that have explored the effects of organism-wide regulation of theimmune response and, conversely, the effects on organism physiology are highlighted.
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Viruses, microRNAs, and host interactions.

TL;DR: The current knowledge of viral miRNAs and virally influenced cellular mi RNAs and their relationship to viral infection is discussed.
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MicroRNAs: Genomics, Biogenesis, Mechanism, and Function

TL;DR: Although they escaped notice until relatively recently, miRNAs comprise one of the more abundant classes of gene regulatory molecules in multicellular organisms and likely influence the output of many protein-coding genes.
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The plant immune system

TL;DR: A detailed understanding of plant immune function will underpin crop improvement for food, fibre and biofuels production and provide extraordinary insights into molecular recognition, cell biology and evolution across biological kingdoms.
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Modulation of hepatitis C virus RNA abundance by a liver-specific MicroRNA

TL;DR: It is shown that the sequestration of miR-122 in liver cells results in marked loss of autonomously replicating hepatitis C viral RNAs, suggesting that miR -122 may present a target for antiviral intervention.
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A Plant miRNA Contributes to Antibacterial Resistance by Repressing Auxin Signaling

TL;DR: It is shown that a flagellin-derived peptide induces a plant microRNA (miRNA) that negatively regulates messenger RNAs for the F-box auxin receptors TIR1, AFB2, and AFB3, implicating auxin in disease susceptibility and miRNA-mediated suppression of auxin signaling in resistance.
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Identification of Virus-Encoded MicroRNAs

TL;DR: The small RNA profile of cells infected by Epstein-Barr virus is recorded and it is shown that EBV expresses several microRNA (miRNA) genes, which are identified viral regulators of host and/or viral gene expression.
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