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MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS
Volume 1, Issue 5-6, Pages 382-390Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b510159j
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In mammalian cells, siRNAs have been used to induce RNA interference (RNAi) in an attempt to prevent nonspecific effects (including the interferon (IFN) response) which are caused by long double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) of more than 30 bp. In this report, we describe a novel and simple strategy for avoiding activation of the IFN response by dsRNA. We show that modified hairpin-RNAs (mhRNAs) of more than 100 bp, with multiple specific point-mutations within the sense strand and transcribed from the U6 or tRNA(Val) promoters, can cause RNAi without inducing the IFN pathway genes. Moreover, we demonstrate that the 50-bp mhRNA vector could effectively suppress the replication of multiple hepatitis C viruses (the genomes of which differ slightly, thus the 21-bp siRNA vector failed to suppress one of them). Our findings should enhance the exploitation of RNAi in mammalian cells, especially in the field of RNAi therapy against pathogenic viruses.
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