Targeting mortalin using conventional and RNA-helicase-coupled hammerhead ribozymes

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 595-601

  Wadhwa, Renu ^a,b   Ando, Hiroshi ^b   Kawasaki, Hiroaki ^c   Taira, Kazunari ^a,c   Kaul, Sunil C ^a  

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

^b Chugai Research Institute for Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MORTALIN; RIBOZYME; RNA HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VIVO STUDY; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0042091934     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor855     Document Type: Article

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