Term Name: post-transcriptional gene silencing
Synonyms: cosuppression, posttranscriptional gene silencing, PTGS, quelling
Definition: The inactivation of gene expression that occurs after transcription.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0016441]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: small RNA binding translational repressor activity
is a type of: negative regulation of gene expression post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
has subtype: global gene silencing by mRNA cleavage regulatory ncRNA-mediated post-transcriptional gene silencing target-directed miRNA degradation
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of post-transcriptional gene silencing
positively regulated by: positive regulation of post-transcriptional gene silencing
regulated by: regulation of post-transcriptional gene silencing