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Expanding the synthetic ribonucleoprotein world in cells

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Protein-responsive ribozymes generated by a streamlined design process will expand the plug-and-play toolbox for synthetic biologists.

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Figure 1: Toward programming cells.

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  1. Callum Parr and Hirohide Saito are in the Department of Reprogramming Science, Kei Endo, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.,

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Endo, K., Parr, C. & Saito, H. Expanding the synthetic ribonucleoprotein world in cells. Nat Methods 11, 1105–1106 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3148

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