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Genes 2012, 3(4), 603-614; doi:10.3390/genes3040603

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Hints of tRNA-Derived Small RNAs Role in RNA Silencing Mechanisms

Maria Rosa Garcia-Silva ^1,†,* , Florencia Cabrera-Cabrera ^1,† , Maria Catalina Güida ^1,†  and Alfonso Cayota ^1,2

¹ Laboratory of Functional Genomics, Institute Pasteur of Montevideo, Mataojo 2020, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay ² Department of Medicine, Hospital de Clínicas, Av. Italia s/n, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay ^† These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Received: 24 August 2012; in revised form: 26 September 2012 / Accepted: 28 September 2012 / Published: 10 October 2012

(This article belongs to the Special Issue RNA Interference)

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Abstract: With the advent of new and improved high-throughput sequencing technologies in the last few years, a growing number of novel classes of small RNA, other than miRNAs or siRNA, has emerged, which appear as new actors in gene expression regulation. tRNA-derived small RNAs represent one of these novel members that are, surprisingly, among the most conserved class of small RNAs throughout evolution. They could represent the most primitive small RNA pathways from which the well-known canonical RNA silencing pathways reported in higher eukaryotes evolved. This review aims to make a compilation of the most relevant research literature in this field with the purpose of shedding light on the relation of these primitive tRNA-derived molecules with the gene silencing machinery.

Keywords: tRNAs; small RNAs; RNAi

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