Gold-tagged RNA - A probe for macromolecular assemblies

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-119

  Medalia, Ohad ^a   Heim, Manfred ^b   Guckenberger, Reinhard ^b   Sperling, Ruth ^c   Sperling, Joseph ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

DNA; Gold cluster; Nanogold; Ribonucleoprotein; RNA; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; GOLD COMPLEX; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0032710778     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4134     Document Type: Article

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