Macromolecular matchmaking: Advances in two-hybrid and related technologies

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 90-96

  Frederickson, Robert M ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LIGAND; PROTEIN; RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; YEAST;

MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031908472     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(98)80090-6     Document Type: Article

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