Designing ribozymes for the inhibition of gene expression
1998
Ribozymes are being increasingly used for the sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression by the cleavage of mRNAs encoding proteins of interest. However, particular attention must be paid to the following points: the identification of regions on the mRNA accessible to the ribozyme; the delivery of ribozymes to cells by either exogenous or endogenous delivery; colocalization of the ribozyme with the target RNA in the cell; and differentiation between closely related sequences. This field is advancing rapidly, and results obtained with transgenic animals demonstrate the power of this strategy for the inhibition of gene expression.
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