Protection from feed-forward amplification in an amplified RNAi mechanism

Cell

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 885-899

  Pak, Julia ^a   Maniar, Jay Mahesh ^a,b   Mello, Cecilia Cabral ^a   Fire, Andrew ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84869065524     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.10.022     Document Type: Article

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