Techniques for following the movement of single RNAs in living cells

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 601-609

  Urbinati, Carl R ^a   Long, Roy M ^b  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FLUORESCENT DYE; MS2 GREEN FLUORESCENT FUSION PROTEIN; NUCLEOPLASMIN; RNA; STREPTOLYSIN O; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIMOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE COMPLEMENTATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL TRACKING; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR BEACON; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSPORT; SINGLE PARTICLE TRACKING; SPINNING DISC CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION MICROSCOPY; WIDEFIELD EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84855291135     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.83     Document Type: Review

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