RNA hairpin loops repress protein synthesis more strongly than hammerhead ribozymes

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 260-273

  Drew, Horace R ^a   Lewy, Denise ^a   Conaty, Jason ^a   Rand, Keith N ^a   Hendry, Philip ^a   Lockett, Trevor ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hammerhead ribozyme; Loop induced degradation of mRNA; RNA hairpin loop; Self cleaving mRNA; Translational attentuation

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RIBOZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; GENES, REPORTER; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033571083     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00864.x     Document Type: Article

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