Rational design of allosteric ribozymes

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 453-459

  Tang, Jin ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptamer; ATP; RNA engineering; RNA enzyme; Self cleaving RNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031171217     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(97)90197-6     Document Type: Article

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