Programmable ligand-controlled riboregulators of eukaryotic gene expression

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-343

  Bayer, Travis S ^a   Smolke, Christina D ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA;

EUKARYOTIC GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC NETWORKS; PROGRAMMABLE LIGAND-CONTROLLED RIBOREGULATORS; TRANS-ACTING RNA;

GENES;

LIGAND; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EFFECTOR CELL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SELECTION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSACTIVATION; ANIMAL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIGANDS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 21444457242     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1069     Document Type: Article

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