Chapter 25 RNA Decay by Messenger RNA Interferases

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 447, Issue , 2008, Pages 521-535

  Christensen Dalsgaard, Mikkel ^a   Overgaard, Martin ^b   Skovbo Winther, Kristoffer ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID VECTOR; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RELE PROTEIN, E COLI;

CELL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; CODON; GENETICS; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA PROBE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROBES; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 58249094401     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02225-8     Document Type: Review

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