Single mRNA molecules demonstrate probabilistic movement in living mammalian cells

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-167

  Fusco, Dahlene ^a   Accornero, Nathalie ^b   Lavoie, Brigitte ^c   Shenoy, Shailesh M ^a   Blanchard, Jean Marie ^b   Singer, Robert H ^a   Bertrand, Edouard ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; COS CELLS; CYTOPLASM; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347156907     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01436-7     Document Type: Article

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