Engineering a direct and inducible protein-RNA interaction to regulate RNA biology

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 851-861

  Belmont, Brian J ^a   Niles, Jacquin C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; LIGAND RESPONSIVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956926288     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb100070j     Document Type: Article

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