Chapter 17 Messenger RNA Half-Life Measurements in Mammalian Cells

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 448, Issue , 2008, Pages 335-357

  Chen, Chyi Ying A ^a   Ezzeddine, Nader ^a   Shyu, Ann Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

CELL FUNCTION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA STABILITY; STARVATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 57749180679     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02617-7     Document Type: Review

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