Functional selection of shRNA loops from randomized retroviral libraries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Jensen, Stig Mølgaard Rask ^a   Schmitz, Alexander ^a   Pedersen, Finn Skou ^a   Kjems, Jørgen ^a   Bramsen, Jesper Bertram ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA LOOP;

GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE LIBRARY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 84865073462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043095     Document Type: Article

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