Exploring sRNA-mediated gene silencing mechanisms using artificial small RNAs derived from a natural RNA scaffold in Escherichia coli

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3787-3804

  Park, Hongmarn ^a   Bak, Geunu ^a   Kim, Sun Chang ^a   Lee, Younghoon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SIBC PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE PAIRING; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84876069938     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt061     Document Type: Article

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