Aptamers as artificial gene regulation elements

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 535, Issue , 2009, Pages 201-208

  Suess, Beatrix ^a   Weigand, Julia E ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptamer; engineered riboswitches; GFP; screening; small molecule; yeast

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIGAND;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PLASMID; YEAST;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; PLASMIDS; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EID: 77952384971     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-557-2_12     Document Type: Article

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