Dissecting RNA folding by nucleotide analog interference mapping (NAIM)

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 811-823

  Waldsich, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; IODINE; LIGAND; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS;

NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MAPPING; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

EID: 43149103175     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.45     Document Type: Article

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