Table 1. Genome immunity by microRNA targeting of mobile DNA

(see also http://shapiro.bsd.uchicago.edu/TableII.9.shtml for earlier references).

Organisms

microRNA targets

References

Plants

Transposable elements

(Rigal and Mathieu 2011; Ng, Lu et al. 2012; Nuthikattu, McCue et al. 2013)

Arabidopsis

Retrotransposons

(Mirouze, Reinders et al. 2009; Slotkin 2010)

Rice

Retrotransposons

(Tian, Yu et al. 2011)

Brassica

Retrotransposons

(Zhang, Ge et al. 2013)

Arabidopsis

Transposable elements

(McCue, Nuthikattu et al. 2012)

Maize

Transposable elements

(Barber, Zhang et al. 2012; He, Chen et al. 2013)

Plants

Viruses and viroids

(Navarro, Pantaleo et al. 2009; Pantaleo 2011; Zhu and Guo 2012; Ramesh, Ratnaparkhe et al. 2014)

Rice, tobacco and Laodelphgax striatellus insect vector

Rice stripe virus

(Xu, Huang et al. 2012)

Arabidopsis

Geminiviruses

(Vanitharani, Chellappan et al. 2005; Raja, Jackel et al. 2013)

Caenorhabditis elegans germ-line

Transposons

(Sijen and Plasterk 2003; Buckley, Burkhart et al. 2012; Lee, Gu et al. 2012)

Drosophila

Viruses

(van Rij, Saleh et al. 2006)

Drosophila somatic cells

Retrotransposons

(Kawamura, Saito et al. 2008)

Drosophila male germ-line

Retrotransposons

(Kalmykova, Klenov et al. 2005)

Drosophila female germ-line

Transposons, retrotransposons and retroviruses

(Brennecke, Aravin et al. 2007; Brennecke, Malone et al. 2008)

Drosophila female germ-line

Telomeric retrotransposons

(Shpiz, Kwon et al. 2009)

Drosophila gonads

Transposons

(Sienski, Donertas et al. 2012)

Drosophila somatic and germ-line cells

Transposons, retrotransposons and retroviruses

(Handler, Meixner et al. 2013)

Drosophila tissue culture cells

Transposons

(Chung, Okamura et al. 2008)

Shrimp

White spot syndrome DNA virus

(Huang and Zhang 2013; Sabin and Cherry 2013)

Mammalian cells

EMCV and NoV RNA viruses

(Maillard, Ciaudo et al. 2013)

Human tissue culture cells

LINE retrotransposons

(Yang and Kazazian 2006)