Impact of siRNA overhangs for dendrimer-mediated siRNA delivery and gene silencing

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3262-3273

  Posocco, Paola ^a   Liu, Xiaoxuan ^b,c,d   Laurini, Erik ^a   Marson, Domenico ^a   Chen, Chao ^b,e   Liu, Cheng ^b,f   Fermeglia, Maurizio ^a   Rocchi, Palma ^b,c,d   Pricl, Sabrina ^a   Peng, Ling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^f WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dendrimer; free energy of binding; gene silencing; siRNA delivery; siRNA engineering; steered molecular dynamics; sticky siRNA

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMER; POLYAMIDOAMINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRIETHANOLAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; ZETA POTENTIAL;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DENDRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84881338882     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp400329g     Document Type: Article

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