Mechanisms, applications, and challenges of insect RNA interference

KY Zhu, SR Palli - Annual review of entomology, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
The RNA interference (RNAi) triggered by short/small interfering RNA (siRNA) was
discovered in nematodes and found to function in most living organisms. RNAi has been …

Argonaute proteins: functional insights and emerging roles

G Meister - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013‏ - nature.com
Small-RNA-guided gene regulation has emerged as one of the fundamental principles in
cell function, and the major protein players in this process are members of the Argonaute …

Genetics on the Fly: A Primer on the Drosophila Model System

KG Hales, CA Korey, AM Larracuente, DM Roberts - Genetics, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Fruit flies of the genus Drosophila have been an attractive and effective genetic model
organism since Thomas Hunt Morgan and colleagues made seminal discoveries with them …

Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome

JB Brown, N Boley, R Eisman, GE May, MH Stoiber… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Animal transcriptomes are dynamic, with each cell type, tissue and organ system expressing
an ensemble of transcript isoforms that give rise to substantial diversity. Here we have …

RISC assembly: Coordination between small RNAs and Argonaute proteins

H Kobayashi, Y Tomari - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Non-coding RNAs generally form ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes with their partner
proteins to exert their functions. Small RNAs, including microRNAs, small interfering RNAs …

Molecular mechanisms of Dicer: endonuclease and enzymatic activity

MS Song, JJ Rossi - Biochemical journal, 2017‏ - portlandpress.com
The enzyme Dicer is best known for its role as a riboendonuclease in the small RNA
pathway. In this canonical role, Dicer is a critical regulator of the biogenesis of microRNA …

Long noncoding RNAs: functional surprises from the RNA world

JE Wilusz, H Sunwoo, DL Spector - Genes & development, 2009‏ - genesdev.cshlp.org
Most of the eukaryotic genome is transcribed, yielding a complex network of transcripts that
includes tens of thousands of long noncoding RNAs with little or no protein-coding capacity …

Biogenesis of small RNAs in animals

VN Kim, J Han, MC Siomi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009‏ - nature.com
Small RNAs of 20–30 nucleotides can target both chromatin and transcripts, and thereby
keep both the genome and the transcriptome under extensive surveillance. Recent progress …

A genome-scale shRNA resource for transgenic RNAi in Drosophila

JQ Ni, R Zhou, B Czech, LP Liu, L Holderbaum… - Nature …, 2011‏ - nature.com
Existing transgenic RNAi resources in Drosophila melanogaster based on long double-
stranded hairpin RNAs are powerful tools for functional studies, but they are ineffective in …

Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe

M Ghildiyal, PD Zamore - Nature reviews genetics, 2009‏ - nature.com
Since the discovery in 1993 of the first small silencing RNA, a dizzying number of small RNA
classes have been identified, including microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs …