Human miRNAs: an antiviral defense mechanism

doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-S2-P83

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This article is part of the supplement: Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts .

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Human miRNAs: an antiviral defense mechanism

Kartik Soni¹, Jasmine K Ahluwalia¹, Sohrab Zafar Khan², Beena Pillai¹, Debashis Mitra¹ and Samir K Brahmachari¹

¹Instituite of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

²National Centre For Cell Science, Pune, India

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from Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts
Montpellier, France. 21-23 September 2009

Retrovirology 2009, 6(Suppl 2):P83doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-S2-P83


Published:	24 September 2009

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miRNAs are short 21-24 nt RNAs that mediate post transcriptional repression of target genes. Various reports have shown that miRNAs are capable of repressing the gene expression levels of different viruses, leading to the suggestion that miRNAs are key mediators of host-virus interaction [1]. HIV-1 is a retrovirus known to cause AIDS, one of the major diseases in humans. The nef gene of the HIV-1 has been shown to be important for virus repression of CD4+ cells and virus progression. It has also been shown earlier that patients infected with nef deleted HIV-1 do not progress from infected to diseased state for longer periods of time, resulting in the Long Term Non-Progressor phenotype [2].