Imaging gene expression in single living cells

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 855-861

  Shav Tal, Yaron ^a   Singer, Robert H ^a   Darzacq, Xavier ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROSCOPY; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YEASTS;

EID: 5044225438     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1494     Document Type: Review

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