A modular strategy for engineering orthogonal chimeric RNA transcription regulators

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 7577-7588

  Takahashi, Melissa K ^a   Lucks, Julius B ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883467214     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt452     Document Type: Article

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