Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 1-8.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2017.05.001

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Research Advances on RNAi Mechanism and Its Application

FENG Xiao-yan ZHANG Shu-zhen   

  1. Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology,Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences,Haikou 571101
  • Received:2016-10-20 Online:2017-05-25 Published:2017-05-19

Abstract: RNA interference(RNAi)is a gene silencing phenomenon induced by small non-coding RNA(sncRNA),which is widely found in eukaryotes. RNAi has become the focus of biological research with some achievements since its discovery. In order to provide some references for the further study of RNAi,the mechanism of RNAi,the key factors involved in RNAi and the application of RNAi are reviewed in this paper.

Key words: RNAi, mechanism, dicer, argonaute protein family, RdRP