Megha Ghildiyal

Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe (2009)

Ghildiyal, Megha, Zamore, Phillip D.

Since the discovery in 1993 of the first small silencing RNA, a dizzying number of small RNA classes have been identified, including microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and...

Endogenous siRNAs derived from transposons and mRNAs in Drosophila somatic cells (2008)

Ghildiyal, Megha, Seitz, Herve, Horwich, Michael D., Li, Chengjian, Du, Tingting, Lee, Soohyun, ...

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) direct RNA interference (RNAi) in eukaryotes. In flies, somatic cells produce siRNAs from exogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) as a defense against viral infection....

Argonaute loading improves the 5' precision of both MicroRNAs and their miRNA strands in flies (2008)

Seitz, Herve, Ghildiyal, Megha, Zamore, Phillip D.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short regulatory RNAs that direct repression of their mRNA targets. The miRNA "seed"-nucleotides 2-7-establishes target specificity by mediating target binding....

Enterohaemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Tir proteins trigger a common Nck-independent actin assembly pathway (2007)

Brady, Michael J., Campellone, Kenneth Geno, Ghildiyal, Megha, Leong, John M.

The Tir proteins of enterohaemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EHEC and EPEC respectively) are each translocated into the host plasma membrane where they promote F-actin pedestals in...