Engineering naturally occurring trans-acting non-coding RNAs to sense molecular signals

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5775-5786

  Qi, Lei ^a,b   Lucks, Julius B ^b,c,f   Liu, Chang C ^b,c   Mutalik, Vivek K ^d,g   Arkin, Adam P ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^g BioFAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; LIGAND; THEOPHYLLINE; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CAPSID PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGANDS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEOPHYLLINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863226500     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks168     Document Type: Article

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