In vitro selection of small RNA-cleaving deoxyribozymes that cleave pyrimidine-pyrimidine junctions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4768-4777

  Schlosser, Kenny ^a   Gu, Jimmy ^a   Lam, Jeffrey C F ^a   Li, Yingfu ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBOZYME; RNA CLEAVING DEOXYRIBOZYME; THYMINE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FAMILY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO SELECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PYRAMIDINE PYRAMIDINE JUNCTION; RNA CLEAVAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA, CATALYTIC; GENE LIBRARY; METALS; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

KOBUS;

EID: 49249091384     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn396     Document Type: Article

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