'RNA walk' a novel approach to study RNA-RNA interactions between a small RNA and its target

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lustig, Yaniv ^a   Wachtel, Chaim ^a   Safro, Mark ^b   Liu, Li ^a   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4' AMINOMETHYL 4,5',8 TRIMETHYLPSORALEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRIOXSALEN; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 75649119339     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp872     Document Type: Article

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