Use of random ribozyme libraries for the rapid screening of apoptosis- and metastasis-related genes

Drug Discovery Today: TARGETS

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 191-200

  Nelson, Laura D ^a   Suyama, Eigo ^a,b   Kawasaki, Hiroaki ^a,b   Taira, Kazunari ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDUCIN; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; FAS ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MICRORNA; PLASMID VECTOR; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; RIBOZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; APOPTOSIS; BASE PAIRING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOSKELETON; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT GENE; METASTASIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842432072     PISSN: 17418372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1477-3627(03)02369-9     Document Type: Review

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