Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

High-throughput identification of synthetic riboswitches by barcode-free amplicon-sequencing in human cells

  • Benjamin Strobel,
  • Maike Spöring,
  • Holger Klein,
  • Dragica Blazevic,
  • Werner Rust,
  • Sergi Sayols,
  • Jörg S. Hartig,
  • Sebastian Kreuz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14491-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Riboswitches can mediate ligand-dependent RNA cleavage and splicing to control gene expression. Here the authors present a method to functionally screen large libraries and identify functional variants.