Commentary
Small non-coding RNAs, mammalian cells, and viruses: regulatory interactions?
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* Corresponding author: Kuan-Teh Jeang KJEANG@niaid.nih.gov
1 Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0460, USA
2 Insitute de Genetique Humaine, Montpellier, France
Retrovirology 2007, 4:74 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-4-74
Published: 15 October 2007Abstract
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.