Engineering ligand-responsive gene-control elements: Lessons learned from natural riboswitches

Gene Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1189-1201

  Link, K H ^a   Breaker, R R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; COCARBOXYLASE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CHEZ; RIBOZYME; RNA; TETRACYCLINE; THEOPHYLLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIGANDS; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 70350179476     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: 14765462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gt.2009.81     Document Type: Review

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