Human zinc fingers as building blocks in the construction of artificial transcription factors

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 275-280

  Bae, Kwang Hee ^a   Kwon, Young Do ^a,b   Shin, Hyun Chul ^a   Hwang, Moon Sun ^a   Ryu, Eun Hyun ^a   Park, Kyung Soon ^a   Yang, Hyo Young ^a   Lee, Dong ki ^a   Lee, Yangsoon ^a   Park, Jinwoo ^a   Kwon, Heung Sun ^a   Kim, Hyun Won ^c   Yeh, Byung Il ^c   Lee, Hyean Woo ^c   Sohn, Soon Hyung ^c   Yoon, Joonho ^c   Seol, Wongi ^a   Kim, Jin Soo ^a  

^a ToolGen Inc   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

BUILDING BLOCKS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YEASTS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0037335514     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt796     Document Type: Article

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