Critical review on engineering deaminases for site-directed RNA editing

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2019, Pages 74-80

  Vogel, Paul ^a   Stafforst, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CRITICAL REVIEW; HIGH SPECIFICITY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; RNA EDITING;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

CASPASE 13; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; DEAMINASE; DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE; K RAS PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE; INOSINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COVALENT BOND; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA BINDING DOMAIN; ENZYME ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM;

ADENOSINE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INOSINE; NUCLEOSIDE DEAMINASES; RNA EDITING;

EID: 85052891605     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.08.006     Document Type: Review

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