Engineered riboregulators enable post-transcriptional control of gene expression

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 841-847

  Isaacs, Farren J ^a,b   Dwyer, Daniel J ^a   Ding, Chunming ^a   Pervouchine, Dmitri D ^a   Cantor, Charles R ^a,b   Collins, James J ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RNA;

RIBOSOME BINDING; STEM-LOOP STRUCTURE;

GENES;

MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 3042741121     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt986     Document Type: Article

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