Small interfering RNA
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Small interfering RNA (siRNA) are a class of 20-25 nucleotide-long RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of genes. These are produced as part of the RNA interference (RNAi) process by the enzyme Dicer.
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External links
- First description of siRNA's (1999). (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10542148&query_hl=3)
- siDirect: a web-based online software system for computing siRNA sequences (http://design.rnai.jp/)
- Paper describing siDirect (http://nar.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/32/suppl_2/W124)
- Paper describing effectivity of siDirect (http://nar.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/32/3/936)
- HuSiDa: Human siRNA Database (http://www.human-siRNA-database.net)
- siRNAdb: a database of siRNA sequences (http://siRNA.cgb.ki.se)
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Nucleobases: Adenine - Thymine - Uracil - Guanine - Cytosine - Purine - Pyrimidine |
| Nucleosides: Adenosine - Thymidine - Uridine - Guanosine - Cytidine - Deoxyadenosine - Deoxythymidine - Deoxyuridine - Deoxyguanosine - Deoxycytidine - Ribose - Deoxyribose |
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Nucleotides: AMP - TMP - UMP - GMP - CMP - ADP - TDP - UDP - GDP - CDP - ATP - TTP - UTP - GTP - CTP - cAMP - cGMP |
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Deoxynucleotides: dAMP - dTMP - dUMP - dGMP - dCMP - dADP - dTDP - dUDP - dGDP - dCDP - dATP - dTTP - dUTP - dGTP - dCTP |
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Nucleic acids: DNA - RNA - LNA - mRNA - ncRNA - miRNA - rRNA - shRNA - siRNA - tRNA - MtDNA - Oligonucleotide |
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