Destabilized green fluorescent protein detects rapid removal of transcription blocks after genotoxic exposure

BioTechniques

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-227

  Kitsera, Nataliya ^a   Khobta, Andriy ^a   Epe, Bernd ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; PATIENT TREATMENT; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

FLUORESCENT CELLS; GENOTOXIC EXPOSURE; TRANSCRIPTION BLOCKS;

PROTEINS;

5,6 DICHLOROBENZIMIDAZOLE RIBOSIDE; ALPHA AMANITIN; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PROLINE; PROTEASOME; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EPISOME; EXPOSURE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION;

DNA DAMAGE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 34547888746     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112479     Document Type: Article

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