Visualizing the Attack of RNase Enzymes on Dendriplexes and Naked RNA Using Atomic Force Microscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Abdelhady, Hosam G ^a,b,c   Lin, Yen Ling ^c   Sun, Haiping ^c   ElSayed, Mohamed E H ^c  

^a TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR DRUG CONTROL AND RESEARCH NODCAR   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMER; NAKED RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNASE VI ENZYME; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME STABILITY; INCUBATION TIME; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

DENDRIMERS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84876341585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061710     Document Type: Article

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