Inhibition of intracellular hepatitis C virus replication by synthetic and vector-derived small interferring RNAs

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 602-608

  Yokota, Takanori ^a,c   Sakamoto, Naoya ^a   Enomoto, Nobuyuki ^a   Tanabe, Yoko ^a   Miyagishi, Makoto ^b,c   Maekawa, Shinya ^a   Yi, Li ^a   Kurosaki, Masayuki ^a   Taira, Kazunari ^b,c   Watanabe, Mamoru ^a   Mizusawa, Hidehiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BASE; POLYPROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR; ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; SIRNA 12; SIRNA 189; SIRNA 286; SIRNA 331; SIRNA 82;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VECTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPLICON; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; EMBRYO; HEK293 CELL LINE; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA CELL LINE; HUH7 CELL LINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE THERAPY; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DNA; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 10744230911     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor840     Document Type: Article

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