High potency silencing by single-stranded boranophosphate siRNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2773-2781

  Hall, Allison H S ^a   Wan, Jing ^b   Spesock, April ^a   Sergueeva, Zinaida ^b   Shaw, Barbara Ramsay ^b   Alexander, Kenneth A ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORANE DERIVATIVE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PHOSPHATE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; BORANOPHOSPHATE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR 2C 2, HUMAN; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR 2C-2, HUMAN; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; CHEMISTRY; HELA CELL; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

BORANES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETICS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHOSPHATES; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 33744793237     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl339     Document Type: Article

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