Direct quantification of mRNA expression levels using single molecule detection

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-114

  Camacho, Agnès ^a   Korn, Kerstin ^b   Damond, Martine ^a   Cajot, Jean François ^a   Litborn, Erik ^b   Liao, Bohao ^b   Thyberg, Per ^b   Winter, Holger ^a   Honegger, Adrian ^a   Gardellin, Paola ^a   Rigler, Rudolf ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Electrum 212   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Gene expression analysis; mRNA analysis; Single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ASSAYS; DRUG PRODUCTS; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA;

CELL LINES;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

MESSENGER RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE PROBE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0347355451     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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