Enzyme engineering through evolution: Thermostable recombinant group II intron reverse transcriptases provide new tools for RNA research and biotechnology

RNA

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1017-1018

  Collins, Kathleen ^a   Nilsen, Timothy W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Noncoding RNA; Reverse transcriptase; RNA seq; Template switching

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

NONCODING RNA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; RNA-SEQ; TEMPLATE SWITCHING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME STABILITY; INTRONS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

EID: 84880689813     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.040451.113     Document Type: Review

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