Effects on RNAi of the tight structure, sequence and position of the targeted region

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 691-699

  Yoshinari, Koichi ^a   Miyagishi, Makoto ^a,b   Taira, Kazunari ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; LUCIFERASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOMES; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1342306353     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh221     Document Type: Article

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