Engineering mRNA stability in E. coli by the addition of synthetic hairpins using a 5' cassette system

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 577-580

  Carrier, Trent A ^a   Keasling, J D ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression control; Hairpins; mRNA stability

Indexed keywords

COLIFORM BACTERIA; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENE EXPRESSION CONTROL; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA CASSETTES; SYNTHETIC HAIRPINS;

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PLASMID; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031554704     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19970805)55:3<577::AID-BIT16>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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