Schistosoma mansoni U6 gene promoter-driven short hairpin RNA induces RNA interference in human fibrosarcoma cells and schistosomules

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 783-789

  Ayuk, Mary A ^a,b   Suttiprapa, Sutas ^a   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^a,c   Mann, Victoria H ^a   Lee, Clarence M ^b   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Luciferase; Promoter; RNA interference; Schistosome; U6 gene; Vector based RNAi

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; PARASITE; PLASMID; RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPISOME; FIBROSARCOMA; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMULUM; U6 GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 79955669947     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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