Transcriptional silencing by single-stranded RNAs targeting a noncoding rna that overlaps a gene promoter

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-126

  Matsui, Masayuki ^a   Prakash, Thazha P ^b   Corey, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84872589628     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb300490j     Document Type: Article

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