Synthetic Riboswitches: From Plug and Pray toward Plug and Play

Biochemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1181-1198

  Etzel, Maja ^a   Mörl, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; GENES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; MODULAR COMPOSITION; RATIONAL DESIGN; REGULATORY PROTEIN; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

APTAMER; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSWITCH;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; RIBOSWITCH;

EID: 85014820996     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01218     Document Type: Article

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