Small RNA-based antimicrobial immunity

Z Guo, Y Li, SW Ding - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Protection against microbial infection in eukaryotes is provided by diverse cellular and
molecular mechanisms. Here, we present a comparative view of the antiviral activity of virus …

RNA interference in Lepidoptera: an overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design

O Terenius, A Papanicolaou, JS Garbutt… - Journal of insect …, 2011 - Elsevier
Gene silencing through RNA interference (RNAi) has revolutionized the study of gene
function, particularly in non-model insects. However, in Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) …

RNA-based antiviral immunity

SW Ding - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2010 - nature.com
In eukaryotic RNA-based antiviral immunity, viral double-stranded RNA is recognized as a
pathogen-associated molecular pattern and processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) …

Thirty years of baculovirus–insect cell protein expression: from dark horse to mainstream technology

MM Van Oers, GP Pijlman… - Journal of General …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
In December 1983, a seminal paper appeared on the overexpression of human IFN-β in
insect cells with a genetically engineered baculovirus. The finding that baculoviruses …

RNA interference in insects: protecting beneficials and controlling pests

E Vogel, D Santos, L Mingels, TW Verdonckt… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Insects constitute the largest and most diverse group of animals on Earth with an equally
diverse virome. The main antiviral immune system of these animals is the post …

The Discovery, Distribution, and Evolution of Viruses Associated with Drosophila melanogaster

CL Webster, FM Waldron, S Robertson, D Crowson… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Drosophila melanogaster is a valuable invertebrate model for viral infection and antiviral
immunity, and is a focus for studies of insect-virus coevolution. Here we use a metagenomic …

The role of viruses in identifying and analyzing RNA silencing

DC Baulcombe - Annual Review of Virology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Adaptive antiviral immunity in plants is an RNA-based mechanism in which small RNAs
derived from both strands of the viral RNA are guides for an Argonaute (AGO) nuclease. The …

RNA interference functions as an antiviral immunity mechanism in mammals

Y Li, J Lu, Y Han, X Fan, SW Ding - Science, 2013 - science.org
Diverse eukaryotic hosts produce virus-derived small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to direct
antiviral immunity by RNA interference (RNAi). However, it remains unknown whether the …

VirusDetect: An automated pipeline for efficient virus discovery using deep sequencing of small RNAs

Y Zheng, S Gao, C Padmanabhan, R Li, M Galvez… - Virology, 2017 - Elsevier
Accurate detection of viruses in plants and animals is critical for agriculture production and
human health. Deep sequencing and assembly of virus-derived small interfering RNAs has …

Transgenerational inheritance of an acquired small RNA-based antiviral response in C. elegans

O Rechavi, G Minevich, O Hobert - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Induced expression of the Flock House virus in the soma of C. elegans results in the RNAi-
dependent production of virus-derived, small-interfering RNAs (viRNAs), which in turn …