A general purpose method for extracting RNA from Dictyostelium cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1329-1332

  Pilcher, Karen E ^a   Gaudet, Pascale ^a   Fey, Petra ^a   Kowal, Anthony S ^a   Chisholm, Rex L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CHLOROFORM; GUANIDINE; NUCLEASE; PHENOL; PROTOZOAL RNA; THIOCYANATE;

ARTICLE; CYTOLYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA MODIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA PURIFICATION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHLOROFORM; DICTYOSTELIUM; PHENOL; RNA; TIME FACTORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 34250754961     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.191     Document Type: Article

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