Gene silencing in mammals by small interfering RNAs

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 737-747

  McManus, Michael T ^a   Sharp, Phillip A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INITIATION FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036788304     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg908     Document Type: Review

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