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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 136 - 137 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0307-136
Transcriptional activation by small RNA duplexes
John J Rossi1
- John J. Rossi is in the Division of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA. e-mail: jrossi@bricoh.edu
Abstract
Short double-stranded RNA duplexes are the triggers for post-transcriptional gene silencing and can also induce epigenetic silencing of genes at the level of transcription. A surprising new finding is that short RNA duplexes targeted to promoter regions can also mediate potent enhancement of transcription.
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