RNA interference, editing, and modification : methods and protocols

RNA interference: Historical overview and significance / M.K. Montgomery -- Methods for delivery of double-stranded rna into caenorhabditis elegans / D. Hull and L. Timmons -- Induction and biochemical purification of rna-induced silencing complex from drosophila s2 cells / A.A. Caudy and G.J. Hannon -- Analysis of gene function in trypanosoma brucei using rna interference / A. Djikeng ... [et al.] -- Short hairpin activated gene silencing in mammalian cells / P.J. Paddison ... [et al.] -- Geminivirus vectors for transient gene silencing in plants / N. Muangsan and D. Robertson -- Posttranscriptional gene silencing in plants / S.V. Wesley ... [et al.] -- Identification of micrornas and other tiny noncoding rnas by cdna cloning / V. Ambros and R.C. Lee -- A historical perspective on rna editing: How the peculiar and bizarre became mainstream / D.J. Koslowsky -- Identification of substrates for adenosine deaminases that act on rna / D.P. Morse -- Purification and assay of recombinant adar proteins expressed in the yeast pichia pastoris or in escherichia coli / G.M. Ring, M.A. O'Connell and L.P. Keegan -- Isolation of an mrna-binding protein involved in c-to-u editing / C.A. Gerber, A. Relich and D.M. Driscoll -- In vitro assays for kinetoplastid u insertion-deletion editing and associated activities / K. Stuart ... [et al.] -- Identification and characterization of trypanosome rna-editing complex components / K. Stuart, A.K. Panigrahi and A. Schnaufer -- Chimeric templates and assays used to study physarum cotranscriptional insertional editing in vitro / E.M. Byrne -- Methods for analysis of mitochondrial trna editing in acanthamoeba castellanii / A.J. Lohan and M.W. Gray -- In vitro rna editing systems from higher plant chloroplasts / T. Hirose ... [et al.] -- Studying rna editing in transgenic chloroplasts of higher plants / R. Bock -- Detection and quantification of modified nucleotides in rna using thin-layer chromatography / H. Grosjean, G. Keith and L. Droogmans -- Functional characterization of 2'-o-methylation and pseudouridylation guide rnas / T. Kiss and B.E. Jady -- Experimental rnomics: A global approach to identifying small nuclear rnas and their targets in different model organisms / A. Huttenhofer, J. Cavaille and J.P. Bachellerie