Longer 19-base pair short interfering RNA duplexes rather than shorter duplexes trigger RNA interference

Oligonucleotides

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 199-206

  Sierant, Malgorzata ^a   Kazmierczak Baranska, Julia ^a   Paduszynska, Alina ^a   Sobczak, Milena ^a   Pietkiewicz, Aleksandra ^a   Nawrot, Barbara ^a  

^a CENTRE OF MOLECULAR AND MACROMOLECULAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 9; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 9; DNA PRIMERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 77955697780     PISSN: 15454576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/oli.2010.0239     Document Type: Article

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