RISCy Business: MicroRNAs, Pathogenesis, and Viruses.

Authors :: Berkhout, Ben
Kuan-teh Jeang
Source :: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 9/14/2007, Vol. 282 Issue 37, p26641-26645. 5p. 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart.
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: The article reports on the discovery that plants and animals have thousands of genes that encode non-protein-coding (nc)RNAs opening a new vista on RNA-mediated biology. NcRNAs include rRNA, tRNA, small nuclear (sn)RNA, small nucleolar (sno)RNAs, micro-(mi)RNAs and some of lesser known RNAs such as vault RNAs, Y RNAs, repeat-associated small interfering (rasi)-RNAs and PIWI-interacting (pi)RNAs.