Enhancing and confirming the specificity of RNAi experiments

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 677-681

  Cullen, Bryan R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EXPORTIN 5; GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERFERON; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LEUCINE; LUCIFERASE; MICRORNA; PROTEIN KINASE R; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SERINE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CELL ASSAY; CELL LINE; CODON USAGE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747799289     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth913     Document Type: Review

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