Molecular basis for improved gene silencing by Dicer substrate interfering RNA compared with other siRNA variants

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6209-6221

  Snead, Nicholas M ^a   Wu, Xiwei ^a   Li, Arthur ^a   Cui, Qi ^a   Sakurai, Kumi ^a,b   Burnett, John C ^a   Rossi, John J ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DICER SUBSTRATE INTERFERING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84880213957     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt200     Document Type: Article

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