Programmable RNA-binding protein composed of repeats of a single modular unit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 19, 2016, Pages E2579-E2588

  Adamala, Katarzyna P ^a   Martin Alarcon, Daniel A ^b   Boydena, Edward S ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression monitoring; Protein engineering; Pumilio; RNA binding protein; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PUMBY PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN PUMHD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; AMINO ACID REPEAT; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84966455350     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519368113     Document Type: Article

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