An RNA polymerase II construct synthesizes short-hairpin RNA with a quantitative indicator and mediates highly efficient RNAi

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Zhou, Hongxia ^a   Xia, Xu Gang ^a   Xu, Zuoshang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UBIQUITIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UBIQUITIN C;

EID: 28644450043     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni061     Document Type: Article

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