Design of shRNAs for RNAi - A lesson from pre-miRNA processing: Possible clinical applications

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 115-120

  Pekarik, Vladimir ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Huntington's disease; miRNA; RNAi; shRNA; siRNA; SOD1; Spinocerebellar ataxia

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ATAXIN 1; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PLASMID VECTOR; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DRUG DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCIENCE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; STANDARD; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 28144446034     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.08.007     Document Type: Review

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