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siVirus: web-based antiviral siRNA design software for highly divergent viral sequencesYuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Nucleic Acids Res 34:W448-50. 2006....
dsCheck: highly sensitive off-target search software for double-stranded RNA-mediated RNA interferenceYuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Nucleic Acids Res 33:W589-91. 2005....
Functional dissection of siRNA sequence by systematic DNA substitution: modified siRNA with a DNA seed arm is a powerful tool for mammalian gene silencing with significantly reduced off-target effectKumiko Ui-Tei
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nucleic Acids Res 36:2136-51. 2008..Thus, it may be possible to design DNA-RNA chimeras which effectively silence mammalian target genes without silencing unintended genes...
Optimal design and validation of antiviral siRNA for targeting HIV-1Yuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, 113 0033, Japan
Retrovirology 4:80. 2007..We present several promising antiviral siRNA candidates that effectively inhibited multiple subtypes of HIV-1 by targeting the best conserved regions in pandemic HIV-1 group M strains...
[Designing functional siRNA sequences]Tomoyuki Yamada
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
Seikagaku 77:1519-25. 2005
Guidelines for the selection of effective short-interfering RNA sequences for functional genomicsKumiko Ui Tei
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Methods Mol Biol 361:201-16. 2007....
Thermodynamic stability and Watson-Crick base pairing in the seed duplex are major determinants of the efficiency of the siRNA-based off-target effectKumiko Ui-Tei
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nucleic Acids Res 36:7100-9. 2008..The off-target effect was more sensitive to siRNA concentration compared to intended gene silencing, which requires a near perfect sequence match between the siRNA guide strand and target mRNA...
siDirect: highly effective, target-specific siRNA design software for mammalian RNA interferenceYuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Nucleic Acids Res 32:W124-9. 2004..The website accepts an arbitrary sequence as input and quickly returns siRNA candidates, providing a wide scope of applications in mammalian RNAi, including systematic functional genomics and therapeutic gene silencing...
siDirect 2.0: updated software for designing functional siRNA with reduced seed-dependent off-target effectYuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
BMC Bioinformatics 10:392. 2009..Thus, an efficient algorithm for designing functional siRNAs with minimal off-target effect based on the mechanistic features is considered of value...
E-cadherin is transcriptionally activated via suppression of ZEB1 transcriptional repressor by small RNA-mediated gene silencingMinami Mazda
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
PLoS ONE 6:e28688. 2011..Thus, E-cadherin could be upregulated by the suppression of ZEB1 transcriptional repressor by miRNAs in vivo...
Guidelines for the selection of highly effective siRNA sequences for mammalian and chick RNA interferenceKumiko Ui-Tei
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Nucleic Acids Res 32:936-48. 2004..In contrast to mammalian and chick cells, little siRNA sequence preference could be detected in Drosophila in vivo RNAi...
siRNA Design Software for a Target Gene-Specific RNA InterferenceYuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Front Genet 3:102. 2012..Here we present our siRNA design software for a target-specific RNAi. In addition, we also introduce the software programs open to the public for designing functional siRNAs...
Designing functional siRNA with reduced off-target effectsYuki Naito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Methods Mol Biol 942:57-68. 2013..0 Web server (http://siDirect2.RNAi.jp/). By using the default parameters, siDirect 2.0 can design at least one qualified siRNA for >94% of human mRNA sequences in the RefSeq database...
Introduction of silencing-inducing transgene against Fgf19 does not affect expression of Tbx5 and beta3-tubulin in the developing chicken retinaMayumi Okamoto
Department of Life Systems, Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima, 2 1 Minami Josanjima cho, Tokushima City 770 8506, Japan
Dev Growth Differ 50:159-68. 2008..Thus, knockdown of Fgf19 supports no obvious regulations between Fgf19 and Tbx5, or exhibits no phenotypes that perturb early retinal differentiation...
