Figure 1.
Schematic of the siRNA mediated RNA interference pathway. After entry into the cytoplasm, siRNA is either loaded onto RISC directly or utilize a Dicer mediated process. After RISC loading, the passenger strand departs, thereby commencing the RNA interference process via target mRNA cleavage and degradation. siRNA loaded RISCs are also found to be associated with nucleolus region and maybe shuttled in and out of nucleus through an yet unidentified process [48].