Knockdown of endogenous WT-hTER by a short hairpin RNA (siRNA) directed specifically against the human WT telomerase RNA template. Knockdown of endogenous WT-hTER by a short hairpin RNA (siRNA) directed specifically against the human WT telomerase RNA template. Northern blot analysis of RNA extracted from a human cancer cell line, MCF-7. The human telomerase RNA, a non-mRNA, can be efficiently knocked down by expression of a short hairpin RNA from a lentiviral construct. GFP lane, Northern blot analysis of RNA from cells expressing GFP alone from the control lentiviral vector [adapted from Li et al. (7)]. Elizabeth H. Blackburn Mol Cancer Res 2005;3:477-482 ©2005 by American Association for Cancer Research