Site-specific incorporation of functional components into RNA by an unnatural base pair transcription system

Molecules

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2855-2876

  Morohashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kimoto, Michiko ^a,b   Sato, Akira ^b   Kawai, Rie ^a,b   Hirao, Ichiro ^a,b  

^a TagCyx Biotechnologies   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

T7 RNA polymerase; Transcription; Unnatural base pair

Indexed keywords

2 PYRROLECARBOXALDEHYDE; 5 CARBOXYTETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE SUCCINIMIDYL ESTER; 5-CARBOXYTETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE SUCCINIMIDYL ESTER; 6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; 6-CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE-2-CARBOXALDEHYDE; RHODAMINE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTHESIS;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PYRIDINES; PYRROLES; RHODAMINES; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84858974138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules17032855     Document Type: Article

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