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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans
SUBMITTER: Taiowa Montgomery
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-37083 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Current biology : CB 20120426 10
<h4>Background</h4>In nematodes, plants, and fungi, RNAi is remarkably potent and persistent due to the amplification of initial silencing signals by RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs). In Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), the interaction between the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) loaded with primary small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and the target messenger RNA (mRNA) leads to the recruitment of RdRPs and synthesis of secondary siRNAs using the target mRNA as the template. The mechani ...[more]