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Virus infection triggers widespread silencing of host genes by a distinct class of endogenous siRNAs in Arabidopsis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Oct 2014
Cao Mengji, Du Peng, Wang Xianbing, Yu Yun-Qi, Qiu Yan-Hong, Li Wanxiang, Gal-On Amit, Zhou Changyong, Li Yi, Ding Shou-Wei
Abstract excerpt
Antiviral immunity controlled by RNA interference (RNAi) in plants and animals is thought to specifically target only viral RNAs by the virus-derived small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). Here we show that activation of antiviral RNAi in Arabidopsis plants is accompanied by the production of an abundant class of endogenous siRNAs mapped to the exon regions of more than 1,000 host genes and rRNA. These virus-activated...
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