Fluorophore binding aptamers as a tool for RNA visualization

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3703-3707

  Eydeler, Katja ^a   Magbanua, Eileen ^a   Werner, Arne ^a   Ziegelmüller, Patrick ^a   Hahn, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOMER; SULFORHODAMINE B; LISSAMINE RHODAMINE B; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; ENZYME BINDING; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; IMAGING; MOLECULE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA EXTRACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODAMINES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67650369612     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.01.041     Document Type: Article

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