Vigilance and validation: Keys to success in RNAi screening

FD Sigoillot, RW King - ACS chemical biology, 2011 - ACS Publications
In the 12 years since the process of RNA interference (RNAi) was first discovered, great
progress has been made in understanding its mechanism and exploiting its ability to silence …

CNS delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics: beyond the blood–brain barrier and towards specific cellular targeting

A D'Souza, S Nozohouri, BS Bleier, MM Amiji - Pharmaceutical Research, 2023 - Springer
Nucleic acid-based therapeutic molecules including small interfering RNA (siRNA),
microRNA (miRNA), antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), messenger RNA (mRNA), and DNA …

Off-target effects of RNAi correlate with the mismatch rate between dsRNA and non-target mRNA

J Chen, Y Peng, H Zhang, K Wang, C Zhao, G Zhu… - RNA biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
RNAi is a potent technique for the knockdown of target genes. However, its potential off-
target effects limit the widespread applications in both reverse genetic analysis and genetic …

G3BP1, G3BP2 and CAPRIN1 are required for translation of interferon stimulated mRNAs and are targeted by a dengue virus non-coding RNA

K Bidet, D Dadlani, MA Garcia-Blanco - PLoS pathogens, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Viral RNA-host protein interactions are critical for replication of flaviviruses, a genus of
positive-strand RNA viruses comprising major vector-borne human pathogens including …

siRNA delivery with chitosan: influence of chitosan molecular weight, degree of deacetylation, and amine to phosphate ratio on in vitro silencing efficiency …

M Alameh, M Lavertu, N Tran-Khanh… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chitosan (CS) shows in vitro and in vivo efficacy for siRNA delivery but with contradictory
findings for incompletely characterized systems. For understanding which parameters …

A bioinformatics method identifies prominent off-targeted transcripts in RNAi screens

FD Sigoillot, S Lyman, JF Huckins, B Adamson… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Because off-target effects hamper interpretation and validation of RNAi screen data, we
developed a bioinformatics method, genome-wide enrichment of seed sequence matches …

A screen of chemical modifications identifies position-specific modification by UNA to most potently reduce siRNA off-target effects

JB Bramsen, MM Pakula, TB Hansen… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are now established as the preferred tool to inhibit gene
function in mammalian cells yet trigger unintended gene silencing due to their inherent …

Poly (amidoamine) dendrimer nanocarriers and their aerosol formulations for siRNA delivery to the lung epithelium

DS Conti, D Brewer, J Grashik, S Avasarala… - Molecular …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-based therapies have great promise in the treatment of a
number of prevalent pulmonary disorders including lung cancer, asthma and cystic fibrosis …

NFAT isoforms control activity-dependent muscle fiber type specification

E Calabria, S Ciciliot, I Moretti, M Garcia… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - pnas.org
The intracellular signals that convert fast and slow motor neuron activity into muscle fiber
type specific transcriptional programs have only been partially defined. The …

siRNA delivery with chitosan nanoparticles: Molecular properties favoring efficient gene silencing

J Malmo, H Sørgård, KM Vårum, SP Strand - Journal of controlled release, 2012 - Elsevier
Chitosan has gained increasing interest for siRNA delivery. Although chitosan covers a
family of structurally different polysaccharides, most siRNA delivery studies have been …