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Engineered RNase P ribozymes inhibit gene expression and growth of cytomegalovirus by increasing rate of cleavage and substrate binding.
Journal of molecular biology - 25 Jan 2002
Trang Phong, Hsu Amy, Zhou Tianhong, Lee Jarone, Kilani Ahmed F, Nepomuceno Edward, Liu Fenyong
Abstract excerpt
We have previously employed an in vitro (genetic) selection procedure to select RNase P ribozyme variants for their activity in cleaving a mRNA substrate from a pool of ribozymes containing randomized sequences. In this study, one of the variants was used to target the overlapping region of the mRNAs encoding the major transcription regulatory proteins, IE1 and IE2, of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). The ribozyme...
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