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Review
. 2004;5(2):208.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-2-208. Epub 2004 Jan 30.

Spreading silence with Sid

Peter van Roessel  1 , Andrea H Brand
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Spreading silence with Sid

Peter van Roessel et al. Genome Biol. 2004.

Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) has been shown to spread from cell to cell in plants and in Caenorhabditis elegans, but it does not spread in other organisms, such as Drosophila. A recent report demonstrates that a membrane channel, encoded by the gene sid-1, is responsible for the spreading of RNAi between cells.

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