Enzymatic incorporation of an azide-modified UTP analog into oligoribonucleotides for post-transcriptional chemical functionalization

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1097-1112

  Rao, Harita ^a   Tanpure, Arun A ^a   Sawant, Anupam A ^a   Srivatsan, Seergazhi G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIDE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COPPER CATALYZED ALKYNE AZIDE CYCLOADDITION; CYCLOADDITION; DNA TEMPLATE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; STAUDINGER REACTION;

AZIDES; BIOCHEMISTRY; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

EID: 84861031474     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.046     Document Type: Article

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