Steric restrictions of RISC in RNA interference identified with size-expanded RNA nucleobases

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1454-1461

  Hernández, Armando R ^a   Peterson, Larryn W ^a   Kool, Eric T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; NUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; WILD TYPE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84865274147     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb300174c     Document Type: Article

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