Biochemical Approaches Including the Design and Use of Strains Expressing Epitope-Tagged Proteins

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 347-355

  Couvillion, Mary T ^a   Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity; Assortment; Immunoblotting; Integration; Overexpression; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858710094     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385967-9.00012-8     Document Type: Chapter

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