Engineering artificial small RNAs for Conditional gene silencing in escherichia coli

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-13

  Sharma, Vandana ^a   Yamamura, Asami ^a   Yokobayashi, Yohei ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene knockdown; Gene regulation; Noncoding RNA; RNA engineering; Small RNA; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

FLIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REPORTER GENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PORINS; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867191934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb200001q     Document Type: Article

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