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ReviewThe EMBO journal2011

Intercellular and systemic movement of RNA silencing signals.

Charles W Melnyk, Attila Molnar, David C Baulcombe

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Review in The EMBO journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

148 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Charles W MelnykDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
Attila Molnar
David C Baulcombe

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In most eukaryotes, double-stranded RNA is processed into small RNAs that are potent regulators of gene expression. This gene silencing process is known as RNA silencing or RNA interference (RNAi) and, in plants and nematodes, it is associated with the production of a mobile signal that can travel from cell-to-cell and over long distances. The sequence-specific nature of systemic RNA silencing indicates that a nucleic acid is a component of the signalling complex. Recent work has shed light on the mobile RNA species, the genes involved in the production and transport of the signal. This review discusses the advances in systemic RNAi and presents the current challenges and questions in this rapidly evolving field.

Indexed as

RNA InterferenceAnimalsGene SilencingHumansMiceNematodaPlantsRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, PlantRNA, Small InterferingRNA TransportSignal TransductionRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, PlantRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID21878996
PMCPMC3181474

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