RNA interference and small interfering RNAs

T Tuschl - Chembiochem, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… -nt RNA duplexes are capable of guiding target RNA cleavage.… RNAs were therefore named
siRNAs (short interfering RNAs) … RNA–protein complexes were referred to as siRNPs (small

Effective expression of small interfering RNA in human cells

CP Paul, PD Good, I Winer, DR Engelke - Nature biotechnology, 2002 - nature.com
RNAs (∼20 base pairs) through liposome transfection. We have explored several strategies
for expressing similar short interfering RNA (… using a human U6 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) …

Small interfering RNA-induced transcriptional gene silencing in human cells

KV Morris, SWL Chan, SE Jacobsen, DJ Looney - Science, 2004 - science.org
Small 21- to 25-nucleotide RNAs have diverse biological roles in eukaryotes, including
transposon silencing and antiviral defense by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and …

A review of nanocarriers for the delivery of small interfering RNA

P Kesharwani, V Gajbhiye, NK Jain - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
… Increasing knowledge about molecular mechanisms of endogenous RNA interference (RNAi)
and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has been incorporated into innovative nucleic acid …

[HTML][HTML] RNA interference and the use of small interfering RNA to study gene function in mammalian systems

I Bantounas, LA Phylactou… - Journal of molecular …, 2004 - jme.bioscientifica.com
… In the past 2 years, extraordinary developments in RNA interference (RNAi)-based
methodologies have seen small interfering RNAs (siRNA) become the method of choice for …

[HTML][HTML] ATP requirements and small interfering RNA structure in the RNA interference pathway

A Nykänen, B Haley, PD Zamore - Cell, 2001 - cell.com
… We examined the role of ATP in the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. Our … RNA into
small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), incorporation of siRNAs into an inactive ∼360 kDa protein/RNA

The specifics of small interfering RNA specificity

A Dillin - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
The discovery of transgene silenc-ing in plants and double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) interference
in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans has led to the latest revolution in molecular biology, …

RNA interference and chemically modified small interfering RNAs

M Manoharan - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2004 - Elsevier
… [1] and silencing by small RNAs in plants was observed by Hamilton and Baulcombe [2].
The pioneering work on the structure and origin of the small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) came …

Gene silencing in mammals by small interfering RNAs

MT McManus, PA Sharp - Nature reviews genetics, 2002 - nature.com
… By contrast, the promise of small interfering RNA (siRNA) technology to '… -stranded RNA
(dsRNA); a technology they called RNA interference (RNAi… Introducing the short interfering RNAs

Transvascular delivery of small interfering RNA to the central nervous system

P Kumar, H Wu, JL McBride, KE Jung, M Hee Kim… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
A major impediment in the treatment of neurological diseases is the presence of the blood–brain
barrier, which precludes the entry of therapeutic molecules from blood to brain. Here we …