Using group II introns for attenuating the in vitro and in vivo expression of a homing endonuclease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Guha, Tuhin Kumar ^a   Hausner, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT CHLORIDE; ENDONUCLEASE; HOMING ENDONUCLEASE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COBALT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM THERMOPHILUM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SPLICING; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHAETOMIUM; COBALT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INTRONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84977627406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150097     Document Type: Article

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