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Hannus, Michael ; Beitzinger, Michaela ; Engelmann, Julia C. ; Weickert, Marie-Theresa ; Spang, Rainer ; Hannus, Stefan ; Meister, Gunter

siPools: highly complex but accurately defined siRNA pools eliminate off-target effects

Hannus, Michael, Beitzinger, Michaela, Engelmann, Julia C. , Weickert, Marie-Theresa, Spang, Rainer, Hannus, Stefan and Meister, Gunter (2014) siPools: highly complex but accurately defined siRNA pools eliminate off-target effects. Nucleic Acids Research 42, pp. 8049-8061.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 30 Jul 2014 11:42
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.30494


Abstract

Short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are widely used as tool for gene inactivation in basic research and therapeutic applications. One of the major shortcomings of siRNA experiments are sequence-specific off-target effects. Such effects are largely unpredictable because siRNAs can affect partially complementary sequences and function like microRNAs (miRNAs), which inhibit gene expression on mRNA ...

Short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are widely used as tool for gene inactivation in basic research and therapeutic applications. One of the major shortcomings of siRNA experiments are sequence-specific off-target effects. Such effects are largely unpredictable because siRNAs can affect partially complementary sequences and function like microRNAs (miRNAs), which inhibit gene expression on mRNA stability or translational levels. Here we demonstrate that novel, enzymatically generated siRNA pools-referred to as siPools-containing up to 60 accurately defined siRNAs eliminate off-target effects. This is achieved by the low concentration of each individual siRNA diluting sequence-specific off-target effects below detection limits. In fact, whole transcriptome analyses reveal that single siRNA transfections can severely affect global gene expression. However, when complex siRNA pools are transfected, almost no transcriptome alterations are observed. Taken together, we present enzymatically produced complex but accurately defined siRNA pools with potent on-target silencing but without detectable off-target effects.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleNucleic Acids Research
Publisher:OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Open Access Type:Gold (with APC)
Place of Publication:OXFORD
Volume:42
Page Range:pp. 8049-8061
Date29 May 2014
InstitutionsMedicine > Institut für Funktionelle Genomik > Lehrstuhl für Statistische Bioinformatik (Prof. Spang)
Informatics and Data Science > Department Computational Life Science > Lehrstuhl für Statistische Bioinformatik (Prof. Spang)

Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl für Biochemie I > Prof. Dr. Gunter Meister
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10.1093/nar/gku480DOI
24875475PubMed ID
KeywordsSHORT INTERFERING RNAS; LONG NONCODING RNAS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; HUMAN-CELLS; CHEMICAL-MODIFICATION; PASSENGER-STRAND; GUIDE STRAND; CLEAVAGE; SCREENS; BIOINFORMATICS;
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 570 Life sciences
600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-304949
Item ID30494

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