Small RNA sequences are readily stabilized by inclusion in a carrier rRNA

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 734-738

  D'Souza, Lisa M ^a,b   Larios Sanz, Maia ^a   Setterquist, Robert A ^a,c   Willson, Richard C ^a,d   Fox, George E ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RNA;

GENE EXPRESSIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0038796684     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp025755j     Document Type: Article

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