Synthetic riboswitches - A tool comes of age

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1839, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 964-973

  Groher, Florian ^a   Suess, Beatrix ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Engineered riboswitch; Ribozyme; Synthetic biology; Tetracycline; Theophylline

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SHUNTING; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EID: 84908333418     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.05.005     Document Type: Review

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