Silencing of Parkinson's disease-associated genes with artificial mirtron mimics of miR-1224

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 9863-9875

  Sibley, Christopher R ^a,b   Seow, Yiqi ^a,c   Curtis, Helen ^a   Weinberg, Marc S ^a,d   Wood, Matthew J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Agency for Science   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MMU MICRORNA 1224; SYNAPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LRRK2 GENE; MIRTRON; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84868132813     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks712     Document Type: Article

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