Transcriptional silencing of a transgene by RNAi in the soma of C. elegans

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 683-696

  Grishok, Alla ^a   Sinskey, Jina L ^a   Sharp, Phillip A ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

dsRNA; L4440; RNAi; RNAi PTGS; RNAi TGS; siRNA

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE; WORM;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LAC OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 15444375305     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1247705     Document Type: Article

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