Properties of N 4-methylated cytidines in miRNA mimics

Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-116

  Guennewig, Boris ^a   Stoltz, Moritz ^a   Menzi, Mirjam ^a   Dogar, Afzal M ^a   Hall, Jonathan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; MICRORNA; N 4 METHYLCYTIDINE; N 4,N 4 DIMETHYLCYTIDINE; NUCLEOSIDE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SYNTHESIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTIDINE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICRORNAS; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84859494554     PISSN: 21593337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/nat.2011.0329     Document Type: Article

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