Allosterically controllable ribozymes with biosensor functions

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 669-677

  Kuwabara, Tomoko ^a,b   Warashina, Masaki ^b   Taira, Kazunari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME;

ALLOSTERISM; BIOSENSOR; CATALYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033638511     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(00)00150-2     Document Type: Review

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