Detection of Viral microRNAs by Northern Blot Analysis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 721, Issue , 2011, Pages 153-171

  McClure, Lydia V ^b   Lin, Yao Tang ^b   Sullivan, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agarose formaldehyde gel; Messenger RNA (mRNA); microRNA (miRNA); Noncoding RNA (ncRNA); Northern blot; RNA induced silencing complex (RISC); Translational inhibition; Urea denaturing acrylamide gel; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; MICRORNA; NYLON; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DNA DENATURATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; VIRUS;

ACRYLAMIDE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FORMALDEHYDE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NYLONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUSES;

HERPES; POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 79960049624     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-037-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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