Lessons from Nature: microRNA-based shRNA libraries

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 707-714

  Chang, Kenneth ^a   Elledge, Stephen J ^b   Hannon, Gregory J ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEASOME; RNA POLYMERASE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PLASMIDS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 33747754760     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth923     Document Type: Article

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