Difference between revisions of "Nanocircles"
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Revision as of 07:58, 20 November 2007
Nanocircles are small circular single-stranded DNA that can be transcribed by phage and bacterial RNA polymerases. These plasmid-like structures were originally developed by Eric T. Kool's lab. The new technology uses a method called rolling circle transcription (RCT) to encode hammerhead, hairpin and hepatitis delta ribozymes.
Rolling Circle Animation Click on Rolling Circles & Artificial Telomeres
Goals
Experimental Design
Figure 1. Structrure of single-stranded DNA nanocircle composed of 63 nucleotides encoding a hammerhead ribozyme and 41 nucleotides of randomized sequences
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Figure 2. Schematic of artificial ribozymes using error prone reverse transcripase PCR
http://www.pnas.org/content/vol0/issue2001/images/data/012589099/DC1/5890Fig9.gif