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1: Retrovirology. 2007 Oct 15;4:74.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Small non-coding RNAs, mammalian cells, and viruses: regulatory interactions?

Yeung ML, Benkirane M, Jeang KT.

Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0460, USA. yeungm@mail.nih.gov

Recent findings suggest that mammalian cells can use small non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) to regulate physiological viral infections. Here, we comment on several lines of evidence that support this concept. We discuss how viruses may in turn protect, suppress, evade, modulate, or adapt to the host cell's ncRNA regulatory schema.

PMID: 17937800 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2164956