Chapter 4 Evaluating the Control of mRNA Decay in Fission Yeast

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 449, Issue C, 2008, Pages 73-95

  Cuthbertson, Brandon J ^a   Blackshear, Perry J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; THIAMINE; TRISTETRAPROLIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZFS 1 PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; DENATURATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STEADY STATE; WILD TYPE; YEAST; ZFS1 GENE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

MUS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 59649090451     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02404-X     Document Type: Chapter

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