Focusing on RISC assembly in mammalian cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 703-708

  Hong, Junmei ^a   Wei, Na ^a   Chalk, Alistair ^b   Wang, Jue ^a   Song, Yutong ^b   Yi, Fan ^a   Qiao, Ren Ping ^c   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^d   Wahlestedt, Claes ^e   Liang, Zicai ^a,b   Du, Quan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^d Stockholm Bioinformatics Center   (Sweden)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

RISC assembly; Silencing activity; siRNA; Thermodynamic stability

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; RNAI GENE SILENCING TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 39749200012     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.01.116     Document Type: Article

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