Relative gene-silencing efficiencies of small interfering RNAs targeting sense and antisense transcripts from the same genetic locus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 4609-4617

  Hu, Xiuyuan ^a   Hipolito, Sharlene ^a   Lynn, Rebecca ^a   Abraham, Violet ^a   Ramos, Silvester ^a   Wong Staal, Flossie ^a  

^a Immusol   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYSTEINE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROLINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SELECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME 2; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POINT MUTATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4344580941     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh790     Document Type: Article

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