Fluorescent probing for RNA molecules by an unnatural base-pair system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5360-5369

  Kimoto, Michiko ^a   Mitsui, Tsuneo ^a   Harada, Yoko ^a   Sato, Akira ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b,c   Hirao, Ichiro ^a  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 6 (2 THIENYL)PURINE; 2 PYRROLECARBOXALDEHYDE; 7 (2 THIENYL)IMIDAZO[4,5 B]PYRIDINE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM ION; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BASE PAIRING; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FLUORESCENT DYES; PURINES; PYRROLES; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 34548757334     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm508     Document Type: Article

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