A double-stranded-RNA response program important for RNA interference efficiency

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3995-4005

  Choudhary, Swati ^a   Lee, Heng Chi ^a   Maiti, Mekhala ^a   He, Qun ^a,b   Cheng, Ping ^a,c   Liu, Qinghua ^a   Liu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34347341721     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00186-07     Document Type: Article

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