Design of artificial riboswitches as biosensors

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Findeiß, Sven ^a,b   Etzel, Maja ^a   Will, Sebastian ^a,b   Mörl, Mario ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Folding kinetics; Ligand binding; Rational design; Refolding; RNA structure; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BINS; BIOSENSORS; LIGANDS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

APTAMERS; FOLDING KINETICS; LIGAND BINDING; RATIONAL DESIGN; REFOLDING; RNA STRUCTURES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

APTAMER; LIGAND;

GENETIC PROCEDURES; KINETICS; RIBOSWITCH;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; KINETICS; LIGANDS; RIBOSWITCH;

EID: 85028704954     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17091990     Document Type: Review

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