Choosing the sequence of dsRNA for RNAi in mouse
1Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic. svobodap@img.cas.cz
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
|February 12, 2010
Abstract:
RNA interference (RNAi) is a suitable method for sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene silencing for a number of model systems. Here, we describe selection of the target sequence for efficient RNAi knockdown in mouse.
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