Antisense tools for functional studies of human Argonaute proteins

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2529-2536

  Mescalchin, Alessandra ^a   Detzer, Anke ^a   Weirauch, Ulrike ^a,b   Hahnel, Maximilian J ^a   Engel, Christina ^a   Sczakiel, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense oligonucleotide; Human ago proteins; miRNA; RNAi; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 4 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; EFFICIENCY; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649639993     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2204610     Document Type: Article

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