RNA, Small Interfering [malá interferující RNA]
- Terms
- 
            krátká interferující RNA 
 krátká vlásenková RNA
 malá scanRNA
 malá vlásenková RNA
 rasiRNA
 RNA malá interferující
 scanRNA
 scnRNA
 shRNA
 siRNA
 tasiRNA
 trans-působící siRNA
- 
            Repeat-Associated siRNA 
 RNA, Scan
 Scan RNA
 scnRNA
 Short Hairpin RNA
 Short Interfering RNA
 shRNA
 siRNA
 siRNA, Repeat-Associated
 siRNA, Trans-Acting
 Small Hairpin RNA
 Small Interfering RNA
 Small Scan RNA
 tasiRNA
 Trans-Acting siRNA
Small double-stranded, non-protein coding RNAs (21-31 nucleotides) involved in GENE SILENCING functions, especially RNA INTERFERENCE (RNAi). Endogenously, siRNAs are generated from dsRNAs (RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED) by the same ribonuclease, Dicer, that generates miRNAs (MICRORNAS). The perfect match of the siRNAs' antisense strand to their target RNAs mediates RNAi by siRNA-guided RNA cleavage. siRNAs fall into different classes including trans-acting siRNA (tasiRNA), repeat-associated RNA (rasiRNA), small-scan RNA (scnRNA), and Piwi protein-interacting RNA (piRNA) and have different specific gene silencing functions.
- Annotation
- Do not confuse with defective interfering RNA (diRNA), a viral RNA of DEFECTIVE VIRUSES.
- DUI
- D034741 MeSH Browser
- CUI
- M0406100
- History note
- 2003; use RNA, SMALL INTERFERING (NM) 2001-2002
- Public note
- 2003; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING was indexed under RNA, UNTRANSLATED 2001-2002
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