Creating small transcription activating RNAs

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 214-220

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

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSWITCH; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; PLASMID; REGULATOR GENE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84925462732     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1737     Document Type: Article

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