RNA INTERFERENCE MEDIATED TARGET DISCOVERY AND TARGET VALIDATION USING SHORT INTERFERING NUCLEIC ACID (siNA)

摘要

The present invention concerns methods and reagents useful in target discovery. Specifically, the invention relates to small nucleic acid molecules capable of mediating RNA interference (RNAi), such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA) short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules and methods of target discovery using siRNA.