Genomic SELEX for Hfq-binding RNAs identifies genomic aptamers predominantly in antisense transcripts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3794-3808

  Lorenz, C ^a,c   Gesell, T ^b   Zimmermann, B ^a   Schoeberl, U ^a,d   Bilusic, I ^a   Rajkowitsch, L ^a,e   Waldsich, C ^a   von Haeseler, A ^b   Schroeder, R ^a  

^a Department of Biochemistry ^*  (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CureVac GmbH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e Lexogen GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; APTAMER; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING AFFINITY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77954378224     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq032     Document Type: Article

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