Chemically modified oligonucleotides modulate an epigenetically varied and transient form of transcription silencing of HIV-1 in human cells

Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages e16-

  Knowling, Stuart ^a   Stapleton, Kenneth ^a   W Turner, Anne Marie ^a   Uhlmann, Eugen ^b   Lehmann, Thomas ^b   Vollmer, Jörg ^b   Morris, Kevin V ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense non coding RNA; DNMT3a; Epigenetic; HDAC 1; HIV 1; LNA; Oligonucleotide; TGS; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868347414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mtna.2012.8     Document Type: Article

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