Modular assembly of designer PUF proteins for specific post-transcriptional regulation of endogenous RNA

Journal of Biological Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Abil, Zhanar ^a   Denard, Carl A ^b   Zhao, Huimin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Golden Gate; Post transcriptional regulation; Protein engineering; PUF; Pumilio; RNA binding protein; Tristetraprolin; TTP

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PUMILIO FEM 3 MRNA BINDING FACTOR; RNA; TRISTETRAPROLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 84896734892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17541611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-1611-8-7     Document Type: Article

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