Purification and characterization of transcribed rnas using gel filtration chromatography

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3270-3277

  McKenna, Sean A ^a   Kim, Insil ^a   Puglisi, Elisabetta Viani ^a   Lindhout, Darrin A ^a   Aitken, Colin Echeverria ^a   Marshall, R Andrew ^b   Puglisi, Joseph D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; DN 108; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; RIBOZYME; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PLASMID;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; PLASMIDS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; THIAZOLIDINEDIONES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 39149123507     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.480     Document Type: Article

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