Bioinformatics and experimental derivation of an efficient hybrid 3′ untranslated region and use in expression active linear DNA with minimum poly(A) region

Gene

Volumn 391, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 130-139

  Al Zoghaibi, Fahad ^a   Ashour, Tareef ^a   Al Ahmadi, Wijdan ^a   Abulleef, Hana ^a   Demirkaya, Omar ^a   Khabar, Khalid S A ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bioinformatics; Expression vectors; mRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE COMPOSITION; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; POLY A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33847683802     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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