RNAi技术及其在植物研究中的应用

RNA干扰(RNAinterference,RNAi)是利用双链RNA(dsRNA)特异性地降解相应序列的mRNA,从而特异性地阻断相应基因地表达,且此现象广泛存在于从真菌到植物、无脊椎动物、哺乳动物的各种生物中。介绍了RNA干扰的研究历史、RNA干扰的作用机制及此技术在植物中的应用。     

RNA干扰技术及其应用

RNA干扰（RNAi)是利用具有同源性的双链RNA诱发序列特异的转录后基因沉默的现象。它可以通过抑制蛋白表达模拟基因敲除技术,从利用体外合成双链RNA到通过质粒稳定表达小型干扰RNA诱发RNA干扰现象,这项技术被不断完善,并被广泛的应用,尽管RNAi的作用机制仍不清楚,但实验证实在RNA干扰过程中,外源的双链RNA在体内会被切割成小片段,新的双链RNA被合成,从而RNAi的作用机制假说正被逐步修正,由于RNAi技术的高效性和特异性,它已经成为基因功能研究的一种新方法。     

RNA干扰的研究进展及应用

RNA干扰(RNAi)是生物体的一种在进化上保持高度保守的,能抵御外源基因或外来病毒侵犯的重要防御机制,是一种序列特异性的转录后基因沉默现象。它由双链RNA引发,广泛存在于动、植物等各种生物体内。我们简要综述了RNAi发生的机制、特点、哺乳动物与RNAi现象,以及RNAi的应用等。     

RNA干涉的分子机制及技术研究进展

RNA干涉(RNA interference,RNAi)现象广泛存在于从真菌到植物、从无脊椎动物到哺乳动物的各种生物中,属于转录后水平的基因沉默(PTGS)。它利用双链RNA(dsRNA)特异性地降解相应序列的mRNA成为siRNA,从而特异性地阻断相应基因的表达,本重点介绍了RNA干涉的分子机制及技术应用等方面的进展,RNA干涉在后基因组时代的基因功能研究和药物开发中将具有广阔的发展前景。     

甲壳动物RNAi技术研究与应用进展

RNA干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)是指由双链RNA(double-stranded RNA,ds RNA)诱发的一种使特定基因沉默的现象。作为一种研究基因功能、发现新基因和抗病毒的新型手段,近年来RNAi技术在昆虫、真菌、植物和哺乳动物等的研究中已被广泛应用,但是在甲壳动物研究中尚处于起步阶段。对甲壳动物RNAi技术实施方法做了简要介绍;着重综述了RNAi技术在甲壳动物CHH家族神经肽类基因功能、蜕皮和生长调控机制、配子及性腺发育调控和甲壳动物抗病毒机制研究上的应用进展。     

RNA干扰的研究进展

RNA干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)是一种由双链RNA诱发的转录后水平的基因沉默现象,是近几年发展起来的基因表达调节新机制。RNAi广泛存在于真菌、植物和动物中,这种调控可以由siRNA、shRNA及miRNA等小分子RNA参与。在此主要对RNAi的研究进展如背景、分子调控机制、存在的问题和应用前景等进行了综述。     

RNA干扰技术在昆虫学领域研究进展

RNA干扰(RNAi)是生物体内源基因发生转录后特异性降解的一种生理现象,广泛存在于生物体内。RNAi主要由小干扰RNA诱发阻碍目的基因的翻译或转录,造成目标信使RNA沉默。RNAi具有高效、特异性强等优点,被广泛应用于昆虫基因功能研究,并显示出了开发新型病虫害管理策略的巨大潜力。主要阐述了RNAi的沉默机制,双链RNA转入昆虫体内的几种方式,以及RNAi技术在不同目昆虫中研究的最新进展。最后,对RNAi技术存在的不足之处进行了简单总结,还对RNAi技术在害虫防治中的应用进行了展望,以期为该技术广泛应用于农业害虫防治提供理论支持。     

RNAi技术及在植物抗病毒研究中的应用

RNA干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)技术是一项基因沉默新技术,在抗病毒研究中,人为地将与病毒或宿主基因(宿主基因编码的蛋白质对病毒很重要而对宿主本身作用很小或不起作用)同源的双链RNA(double strand RNA,dsRNA)导入生物体内,引起与其同源的基因发生沉默,从而抑制病毒复制,达到抗病毒的目的。因此RNAi技术在抗病毒研究中倍受关注,并取得了显著成绩。主要对RNAi技术的相关知识以及在植物抗病毒中的应用进展作一综述。     

RNA干扰技术在哺乳动物中的应用

RNA干扰(RNAi)是生物界普遍存在的一种抵御外来基因和病毒感染的进化保守机制.RNAi是由双链RNA触发的转录后基因沉默机制,具有序列特异性,在哺乳动物细胞中,RNAi由21～23个核苷酸组成的双链RNA引发.小干扰RNA(siRNA)可以在体外合成或通过表达载体在哺乳动物细胞内合成.由于RNAi技术具有快速、简单和特异性强等特点,在基因功能研究、抗病毒治疗和抗肿瘤治疗等方面有广泛的应用前景.     

RNAi技术在蜂学研究中的应用

RNA干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)是指外源或内源的双链RNA(dsRNA)特异性引起基因表达沉默的现象,特异性和高效性是RNAi技术的特点。本文主要从调控目标基因的表达、级型分化的分子基础、防治蜜蜂病毒病3个方面概述了RNAi技术在蜂学研究中的应用进展情况,并展望RNAi技术在蜜蜂功能基因组研究领域的应用前景。     

A phagocytic route for uptake of double-stranded RNA in RNAi

RNA interference (RNAi) has a range of physiological functions including as a defence mechanism against viruses. To protect uninfected cells in a multicellular organism, not only a cell-autonomous RNAi response is required but also a systemic one. However, the route of RNA spread in systemic RNAi remains unclear. Here we show that phagocytosis can be a route for double-stranded RNA uptake. Double-stranded RNA expressed in Escherichia coli induces robust RNAi in Drosophila S2 cells, with effectiveness comparable to that of naked dsRNA. We could separate this phagocytic uptake route from that for RNAi induced by naked dsRNA. Therefore, phagocytic uptake of dsRNA offers a potential route for systemic spread of RNAi.     

RNA干扰技术在水产动物抗病毒和抗寄生虫研究中的应用研究进展

RNA干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)是由双链RNA介导的,抑制目标基因的表达,沉默靶基因的一种转录后基因沉默机制,并且在真核生物中广泛存在。近年来随着水产养殖业的发展壮大,水产动物疾病频繁爆发,给养殖户带来巨大的经济损失。目前,病毒、寄生虫等病原引起的水产动物疾病的致病机制还有待深入研究。RNA干扰技术的出现为水产动物疾病致病机制的研究提供了强有力的工具。主要对RNA干扰的发现、作用机制以及在水产动物抗病毒和抗寄生虫研究中的应用作以综述,并对未来RNAi技术在水产动物疾病防治中的研究和应用进行了展望,旨为水产动物疾病控制提供参考。     

RNA interference: implications for cancer treatment

RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as one of the most important discoveries of the last years in the field of molecular biology. Following clarification of this highly conserved endogenous gene silencing mechanism, RNAi has largely been exploited as a powerful tool to uncover the function of specific genes and to understand the effects of selective gene silencing in mammalian cells both in vitro and in vivo. RNAi can be induced by direct introduction of chemically synthesized siRNAs into the cell or by the use of plasmid and viral vectors encoding for siRNA allowing a more stable RNA knockdown. Potential application of this technique both as a research tool and for therapeutic purposes has led to an extensive effort to overcome some critical constraints which may limit its successful application in vivo, including off-target and non-specific effects, as well as the relatively poor stability of siRNA. This review provides a brief overview of the RNAi mechanism and of its application in preclinical animal models of cancer.     

RNA干扰在植物中的作用机理及其应用研究进展

RNA干扰(RNAi)是广泛存在于生物中的一种现象,它是小干扰RNA诱导的转录后基因沉默,是生物抵抗异常DNA的一种保护机制,同时在生物生长发育过程中调控基因的表达.本文综述了近年来有关RNA干扰的发现、作用过程及其机理,分析了它与反义寡核苷酸、核酶、脱氧核酶的小同,并介绍了RNA干扰在植物基因功能、植物抗病毒、作物品种改良等方面的应用,为siRNA干扰的进一步利用提供参考资料.     

pWormgatePro enables promoter-driven knockdown by hairpin RNA interference of muscle and neuronal gene products in Caenorhabditis elegans

Recent advances in genome research and RNA interference (RNAi) technology have accelerated the adoption of genome-wide experimental approaches for determining gene function in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Despite recent successes, the application of RNAi is limited when gene knockdown causes complex phenotypes or embryonic lethality. Recently, the high-throughput pWormgate cloning system has been introduced as a tool to efficiently generate heat-shock-inducible hairpin RNA constructs using the Gateway recombination technology. We have modified pWormgate into a versatile hairpin cloning plasmid, pWormgatePro, which facilitates temporally and spatially inducible hairpin RNAi using constitutively active, tissue-specific promoters. To demonstrate its utility we knocked down unc-22 in body wall muscles as well as the axon guidance gene unc-5 in the nervous system indicating that promoter-driven hairpins can overcome the neuronal resistance to RNAi. Using pWormgatePro we also show that RNAi in the nervous system of C. elegans is non-autonomous and that spreading of the RNAi signal from neurons to muscle is substantially reduced but not abolished in spreading-defective sid-1 mutant animals. Our findings illustrate the effectiveness of pWormgatePro for gene silencing in muscle cells and neurons and bring forward the possibility of applying tissue-specific RNAi on a genome-wide scale.     

Inhibition of RNA interference and modulation of transposable element expression by cell death in Drosophila

RNA interference (RNAi) regulates gene expression by sequence-specific destruction of RNA. It acts as a defense mechanism against viruses and represses the expression of transposable elements (TEs) and some endogenous genes. We report that mutations and transgene constructs that condition cell death suppress RNA interference in adjacent cells in Drosophila melanogaster. The reversal of RNAi is effective for both the white (w) eye color gene and green fluorescent protein (GFP), indicating the generality of the inhibition. Antiapoptotic transgenes that reverse cell death will also reverse the inhibition of RNAi. Using GFP and a low level of cell death produced by a heat shock-head involution defective (hs-hid) transgene, the inhibition appears to occur by blocking the conversion of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to short interfering RNA (siRNA). We also demonstrate that the mus308 gene and endogenous transposable elements, which are both regularly silenced by RNAi, are increased in expression and accompanied by a reduced level of siRNA, when cell death occurs. The finding that chronic ectopic cell death affects RNAi is critical for an understanding of the application of the technique in basic and applied studies. These results also suggest that developmental perturbations, disease states, or environmental insults that cause ectopic cell death would alter transposon and gene expression patterns in the organism by the inhibition of small RNA silencing processes.     

RNA干扰与植物抗病毒

RNA干扰是多种生物体内由双链RNA介导的同源mRNA降解现象,是植物体内天然的抗病毒机制。然而病毒在长期进化过程中也获得了通过编码沉默抑制蛋白来对抗植物体RNAi系统的能力。本文对RNA干扰过程、病毒编码的沉默抑制蛋白及利用干扰技术进行抗病毒基因工程研究进行简要综述。     

基于RNAi技术的转基因植物研究进展

RNA干扰（RNA interference,RNAi）是指由双链RNA（double-stranded RNA,dsRNA）诱发同源mRNA高效特异性降解的现象,在真核生物中普遍存在且进化保守。RNAi技术作为21世纪初的重大科学成就,目前被广泛应用于疾病防治、基因功能研究、植物改良育种等领域。RNAi技术常与转基因技术结合用于植物改良育种,通过不同的载体设计或作用途径来研发满足生产需要的农业生物技术产品。为了明确现阶段基于RNAi技术的转基因植物育种技术进展,综述了RNAi现象的发现和作用机制、转基因载体设计、小RNA（small RNA,sRNA）的递送方式等方面的研究进展,并阐述了基于RNAi技术的转基因植物的研究实例和商业化情况,以期为相关研究提供参考,从而发挥RNAi技术的最大应用价值,使之服务于新时代的农业发展。