Automated physics-based design of synthetic riboswitches from diverse RNA aptamers

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-13

  Espah Borujeni, Amin ^a   Mishler, Dennis M ^b,c   Wang, Jingzhi ^b   Huso, Walker ^a   Salis, Howard M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; AMINE; APTAMER; DOPAMINE; FLUORIDE; LIGAND; TETRAMETHYLROSAMINE; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RIBOSWITCH;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA FOLDING; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC EVOLUTION OF LIGANDS BY EXPONENTIAL ENRICHMENT APTAMER TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE; THYROXINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84959368267     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1289     Document Type: Article

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