How many ways are there to generate small RNAs?
In this issue of Molecular Cell, Lee et al. show that Neuropsora crassa uses several Dicer-dependent and -independent pathways to generate miRNA-like RNAs and small-interfering RNAs. Their studies expand the known small RNA biogenesis pathways and suggest the existence of others that are yet to be discovered.
Jin
Hailing
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Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. hailing.jin@ucr.edu
Zhu
Jian-Kang
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