Knocking down gene function with an RNA aptamer expressed as part of an intron

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Shengchun ^a   Zhao, Xiaoching ^b   Suran, Robert ^b   Vogt, Volker M ^b   Lis, John T ^b   Shi, Hua ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; RIBOSOME RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL HOMING; DNA CLEAVAGE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; HEAT TREATMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; INTRONS; PHENOTYPE; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956107695     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq529     Document Type: Article

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