Allosteric aptamers and aptazymes as probes for screening approaches

Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-143

  Famulok, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allosteric ribozymes; Aptamers; High throughput screening; Synthetic riboswitches

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APTAMER; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; NUCLEIC ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; REV PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; SELF SPLICING RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR PROBES; PROTEINS; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 17144380787     PISSN: 14648431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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