Engineering modular 'ON' RNA switches using biological components

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 10449-10461

  Ceres, Pablo ^a   Trausch, Jeremiah J ^a   Batey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APTAMER; LYSINE; RNA; THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL COMPONENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METH GENE; NONHUMAN; ON OFF PHENOMENON; PBUE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RIBOSWITCH; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SAHH GENE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSWITCH; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84890327325     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt787     Document Type: Article

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