Designing and using synthetic RNA thermometers for temperature-controlled gene expression in bacteria

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1262-1273

  Neupert, Juliane ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOMETER; THERMOREGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 70249114776     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.112     Document Type: Article

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