Similar behaviour of single-strand and double-strand siRNAs suggests they act through a common RNAi pathway

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2401-2407

  Holen, Torgeir ^a   Amarzguioui, Mohammed ^a   Babaie, Eshrat ^a   Prydz, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; THROMBOPLASTIN; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0038074374     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg338     Document Type: Article

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