Designing and using RNA scaffolds to assemble proteins in vivo

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1797-1807

  Delebecque, Camille J ^a,b,c,d   Silver, Pamela A ^a,b   Lindner, Ariel B ^c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DNA STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

BINDING SITES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84870027847     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.102     Document Type: Article

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