Volatility in mRNA secondary structure as a design principle for antisense

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Erik ^a   Srivastava, Ranjan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ACETOACETATE DECARBOXYLASE GENE; ARTICLE; BUTYRATE KINASE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION FATAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST KILLING A GENE; HOST KILLING C GENE; HOST KILLING GENE; HYDROGEN BOND; LONG DIRECT REPEAT A GENE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOTRANSBUTYRYLASE GENE; PNDA GENE; PNDB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATOR DETECTED IN LDRA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPPRESSION OF FATALITY GENE; SUPPRESSION OF KILLING A GENE; SUPPRESSION OF KILLING C GENE; SUPPRESSION OF KILLING GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXY-LYASES; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (CARBOXYL GROUP ACCEPTOR); RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84873691150     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks902     Document Type: Article

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