Efficient Hammerhead Ribozyme and Antisense RNA Targeting In A Slow Ribosome Escherichia Coli Mutant

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 432-435

  Chen, Hui ^a   Ferbeyre, Gerardo ^a   Cedergren, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene inhibition; Ribosomes; Ribozyme; Slow translation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOMYCIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0030956463     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0597-432     Document Type: Article

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