Abstract

Low concentrations of the antibiotic doxycycline are sufficient to control the activity of an allosteric hammerhead ribozyme (shown schematically). This was obtained by allosteric selection of an RNA library, which was fused to helix II of the ribozyme. Such molecular switches may serve as a valuable tool for the development of tailored conditional gene expression systems that can be controlled by the presence or absence of any kind of small molecule.

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