Ribozyme protocols /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Turner, Philip C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1997]
Series:Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 74.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ribozymes : an introduction
  • Computer-aided calculation of the local folding potential of target RNA and its use for ribozyme design
  • Computational approaches to the identification of ribozyme target sites
  • Computer analysis of the conservation and uniqueness of ribozyme-targeted HIV sequences
  • Selection of accessible sites for ribozymes of large RNA transcripts
  • Selection of efficient ribozyme cleavage sites in target RNAs
  • Chemical synthesis, analysis and purification of ribozymes
  • A practical method for the production of RNA and ribozymes
  • Preparation of templates for production of ribozymes and substrates
  • Enzymatic synthesis and characterization of unmodified ribozymes and substrates
  • T7 transcript length determination usng enzymatic RNA sequencing
  • Chemical and enzymatic approaches to construct modified RNAs
  • Applications of modified transcipts
  • Cloning strategies for catalytic antisense RNAs
  • PCR-based construction of long hammerhead ribozymes
  • Design and production of asymmetric hammerhead ribozymes
  • Minimized hammerhead ribozymes
  • Design of hairpin ribozymes for invitro and cellular applications
  • Dsign of the hairpin ribozyme for targeting specific RNA sequences
  • Design and preparation of sequence-specific RNase P ribozymes
  • Theoretical considerations in measuring reaction parameters
  • Experimental approaches for measuring reaction parameters
  • Determination of catalytic parameters for hairpin ribozymes
  • Characterizing ribozyme cleavage reactions
  • Defining optimum reaction conditions for hammerhead ribozymes
  • Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer to investigate hammerhead ribozyme kinetics
  • Design of hybridizing arms in hammerhead ribozymes
  • Optimization of hammerhead flanking sequences using oligonucleotide facilitators
  • Enhancement of ribozyme function by RNA binding proteins
  • Selection of fast-hybridizing complementary RNA species in vitro
  • In vitro selection of hairpin ribozymes
  • The detection of hammerhead ribozyme cleavage by RT-PCR methods
  • Detection of ribozyme cleavage products using reverse ligation-mediated PCR (RL-PCR)
  • Quantitation of ribozyme target abundance by QCPCR
  • Trans-splicing reactions by ribozymes
  • Ligation of RNA molecules by the hairpin ribozyme
  • Mutagenesis and modeling of the hairpin ribozyme family
  • Preparation of homogenous ribozyme RNA for crystallization
  • Establishing suitability of RNA preparations for crystallization : determination of polydispersity
  • A sparse matrix approach to crystallizing ribozymes and RNA motifs
  • Crystallographic analyses of chemically synthesized modified hammerhead RNA sequences as a general approach toward understanding ribozyme structure and function
  • tRNA delivery systems for ribozymes
  • Expressing ribozymes in plants
  • Using microinjection of Xenopus oocytes to express and optimize ribozymes in vivo
  • Exogenous cellular delivery of ribozymes and ribozyme encoding DNAs
  • Optimization of lipid-mediated ribozyme delivery to cells to culture
  • Retroviral delivery and anti-HIV testing of hammerhead ribozymes
  • Hairpin ribozyme gene therapy for AIDS
  • Clinical aspects of ribozymes as therapeutics in gene therapy