Expanding nucleic acid function in vitro and in vivo

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 601-606

  Cropp, T Ashton ^a   Chin, Jason W ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE;

BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CATALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33751421207     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.10.008     Document Type: Review

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