Riborepressor Illustration (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Riborepressor Illustration

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This illustration shows how a complex synthetic RNA containing multiple programmable Riborepressors (long teal blue strand) is bound by incoming trigger RNAs (shorter red and green RNA strands) that change the Riborepressors' secondary structures to block the protein-synthesizing ribosome from accessing its binding sites (purple and light blue structure in the center).

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Alexander Green / Arizona State University

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