Engineering Biological Systems with Synthetic RNA Molecules

Molecular Cell

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 915-926

  Liang, Joe C ^a   Bloom, Ryan J ^b   Smolke, Christina D ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPPED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; RIBOZYME; RNA; SYNTHETIC RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOSENSOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER GENETICS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGAND BINDING; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RNA;

EID: 80052975908     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.08.023     Document Type: Review

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