Selecting RNA aptamers for synthetic biology: investigating magnesium dependence and predicting binding affinity.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on February 16, 2010

Authors

James M Carothers1, Jonathan A Goler, Yuvraaj Kapoor, Lesley Lara, Jay D Keasling

Author Affiliations

1: California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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