Transcription, reverse transcription, and analysis of RNA containing artificial genetic components

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 407-413

  Leal, Nicole A ^a,b   Kim, Hyo Joong ^a,b   Hoshika, Shuichi ^a,b   Kim, Myong Jung ^a,b   Carrigan, Matthew A ^c   Benner, Steven A ^a,b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION   (United States)

^b Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC   (United States)

^c Santa Fe College   (United States)

Author keywords

artificially expanded genetic information systems; reverse transcriptase; synthetic biology; T7 RNA polymerase; transcription

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOIMIDAZO [1,2A] 1,3,5 TRIAZIN 4 (8H) ONE; 6 AMINO 5 NITROPYRIDIN 2 4 (8H) ONE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; RIBONUCLEASE A; RIBONUCLEASE T1; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84928106237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500268n     Document Type: Article

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