A synthetic snRNA m3G-CAP enhances nuclear delivery of exogenous proteins and nucleic acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1925-1935

  Moreno, Pedro M D ^a   Wenska, Malgorzata ^b   Lundin, Karin E ^a   Wrange, Örjan ^b   Strömberg, Roger ^b   Smith, Edvard C I ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,2,7 TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE CAP; NUCLEAR CAP BINDING PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CAPPED RNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GUANOSINE; N(2),N(2),7 TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE; N(2),N(2),7-TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; STREPTAVIDIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA CAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; RNA SPLICING; SYNTHESIS; XENOPUS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; GUANOSINE; HUMANS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; OOCYTES; RNA CAP ANALOGS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; STREPTAVIDIN; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 64549148800     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp048     Document Type: Article

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