Drug discovery with engineered zinc-finger proteins

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 361-368

  Jamieson, Andrew C ^a   Miller, Jeffrey C ^a   Pabo, Carl O ^a  

^a SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYTAMOXIFEN; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; RAPAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

BASE PAIRING; CELL LINE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RESEARCH; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DRUG DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0037711251     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1087     Document Type: Review

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