Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on September 14, 2008.

Genetics, Vol. 180, 1245-1249, October 2008, Copyright © 2008
doi:10.1534/genetics.108.093922

Transcriptional Control and Protein Specialization Have Roles in the Functional Diversification of Two Dicer-Like Proteins in Magnaporthe oryzae

Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan

1 Corresponding author: Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan.
E-mail: hnakaya{at}kobe-u.ac.jp

Quantitative RT–PCR and overexpression studies of two Dicer-like proteins, MoDcl1 and MoDcl2, in Magnaporthe oryzae indicated that the functional diversification of the MoDcl1 and MoDcl2 proteins in RNA-mediated gene silencing pathways was likely to have arisen from both transcriptional control and protein specialization.