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    RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which RNA molecules are involved in sequence-specific suppression of gene expression by double-stranded...
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    typically 20–24 base pairs in length, similar to microRNA (miRNA), and operating within the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. It interferes with the expression...
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    double-stranded RNA transcript containing a 240 bp fragment of the WCR Snf7 gene of the western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera). RNA interference (RNAi)...
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  • Gene silencing (category RNA)
    Modifications) Transgene silencing Position effect RNA-directed DNA methylation RNA interference RNA silencing Nonsense mediated decay Transvection Meiotic...
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  • some of which are topical and some of which are absorbed by the crop. RNA interference is under study for use in spray-on insecticides (RNAi insecticides)...
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    Dicer (category RNA interference)
    Dicer facilitates the activation of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which is essential for RNA interference. RISC has a catalytic component Argonaute...
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    transfer RNA (tRNA), microRNA (miRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), small nucleolar RNA (snoRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA), tRNA-derived small RNA (tsRNA)...
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  • proteins in RISC, Argonaute, activates and cleaves the mRNA. This process is called RNA interference (RNAi) and it is found in many eukaryotes; it is a key...
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  • first appeared in the literature in 1994 RNA interference (RNAi) is a means of silencing genes by way of mRNA degradation. Gene knockdown by this method...
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  • Sue Burke Crossover interference, non-random placement of crossovers with respect to each other during meiosis RNA interference, a process within living...
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    RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) or RNA replicase is an enzyme that catalyzes the replication of RNA from an RNA template. Specifically, it catalyzes...
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    dsRNA. They form the genetic material of some viruses (double-stranded RNA viruses). dsRNA, such as viral RNA or siRNA, can trigger RNA interference in...
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  • sterility helps plant breeders make hybrid crops. RNA interference (RNAIi) is the process in which a cell's RNA to protein mechanism is turned down or off in...
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    RNA interference". Bioscience Reports. 25 (5–6): 299–307. doi:10.1007/s10540-005-2892-7. PMID 16307378. S2CID 6983519. Félix MA (November 2008). "RNA...
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    the mRNA. miRNAs resemble the small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, except miRNAs derive from regions of RNA transcripts...
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  • RNA silencing or RNA interference refers to a family of gene silencing effects by which gene expression is negatively regulated by non-coding RNAs such...
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    Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of...
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    RNA interference is an important innate defence against viruses. Many viruses have a replication strategy that involves double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)....
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    the catalytic functions of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC). In the well-known cellular process of RNA interference, the argonaute protein in the...
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    first known components of RNA interference and their paralogs, Dicer and the PIWI proteins, are used by both miRNAs and siRNAs. Ruvkun's lab in 2003 identified...
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    CRISPR (category Non-coding RNA)
    predicted a role for the RNA transcript of spacers on target recognition in a mechanism that could be analogous to the RNA interference system used by eukaryotic...
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  • defective in the cell cycle in S. cerevisiae and S. pombe, respectively. RNA interference (RNAi) screen is essentially a forward genetics screen using a reverse...
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    sRNAs by RNA interference such as Host-Induced Gene Silencing (HIGS). The transport of RNA between plants and fungi seems to be bidirectional as sRNAs...
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    sense, the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism has a number of parallels with the RNA interference (RNAi) mechanism in eukaryotes. Apart from its original function in...
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    Argonaute (category RNA interference)
    as RNA interference (RNAi). Argonaute proteins bind different classes of small non-coding RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)...
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    Transfer RNA (abbreviated tRNA and formerly referred to as sRNA, for soluble RNA) is an adaptor molecule composed of RNA, typically 76 to 90 nucleotides...
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  • Devgen is a Belgium-based multinational agricultural biotechnology company. It uses biotechnology and molecular breeding technologies to develop varieties...
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    attributed to the RNA interference pathway, potentially through cleaving siRNA molecules; to cleavage of transfer RNA; and to interference with the NF-κB...
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    responses including RNA interference that are triggered by the presence of double-stranded RNA. During the infection, rotaviruses produce mRNA for both protein...
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  • those based on messenger RNA (mRNA), antisense RNA (asRNA), RNA interference (RNAi), and RNA aptamers. Of the four types, mRNA-based therapy is the only...
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