Direct comparison of the specificity of gene silencing using antisense oligonucleotides and RNAi

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 388, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 573-583

  Bilanges, Benoit ^a   Stokoe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 phosphoinositide dependent kinase 1 (PDK1); Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO); Gene silencing; Microarray analysis; RNA interference (RNAi); Small interfering RNA (siRNA)

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ENZYMES; RNA;

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE (ASO); GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; PHENOTYPE;

GENES;

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PDK1; PROTEIN SERINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17244377075     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20041956     Document Type: Article

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