Separation of 1-23-kb complementary DNA strands by urea-agarose gel electrophoresis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Hegedüs, Éva ^a   Kókai, Endre ^a   Kotlyar, Alexander ^b   Dombrádi, Viktor ^a,c   Szabó, Gábor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; UREA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA PROBE; DNA STRAND; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HEAT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; UREA;

EID: 73049093715     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp539     Document Type: Article

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