MicroRNA sponges: Competitive inhibitors of small RNAs in mammalian cells

Nature Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 721-726

  Ebert, Margaret S ^a   Neilson, Joel R ^a   Sharp, Phillip A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SELECTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SPONGE (PORIFERA); TRANSGENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PLASMIDS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE III; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34548316982     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1079     Document Type: Article

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