The contributions of dsRNA structure to Dicer specificity and efficiency

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 674-682

  Vermeulen, Annaleen ^a   Behlen, Linda ^b   Reynolds, Angela ^a   Wolfson, Alexey ^b   Marshall, William S ^a   Karpilow, Jon ^a   Khvorova, Anastasia ^a  

^a Dharmacon Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleavage specificity; Dicer; Overhang structure; RNAi

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA CLEAVAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA HELICASES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17844363243     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7272305     Document Type: Article

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