Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference
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Blog Post
Published
June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...types, while shRNA and siRNA are synthetic constructs introduced through external methods.
shRNA processing...plasmids, shRNAs hijack the endogenous miRNA machinery for processing (Figure 1). The shRNA sequence is...BioRender.com.
Expressing shRNAs using plasmids
The design of shRNA plasmids requires three important... specificity.
Using your shRNA plasmids
One of the most common uses of shRNAs is to generate stable knockout...experiment. For this blog, we’ll be focusing on shRNA, one of the most popular choices for gene silencing... such as:
Micro-RNA (miRNA)
Short hairpin RNA (shRNA)
Short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Piwi-interacting ... is transcribed to produce hairpin shRNA structures that are processed by a ribonuclease called Dicer....