A bi-functional siRNA construct induces RNA interference and also primes PCR amplification for its own quantification

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Jiang, Ming ^a   Arzumanov, Andrey A ^b   Gait, Michael J ^b   Milner, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROOK SMALL INTERFERING RNA; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ONCOGENE PROTEIN E7, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; ONCOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

MAMMALIA;

CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 28544440178     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni144     Document Type: Article

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