Functional siRNAs and miRNAs exhibit strand bias

Cell

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-216

  Khvorova, Anastasia ^a,b   Reynolds, Angela ^a,b   Jayasena, Sumedha D ^a  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

^b Dharmacon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONGEVITY; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0142165224     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00801-8     Document Type: Article

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