Single-mRNA counting using fluorescent in situ hybridization in budding yeast

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 408-419

  Trcek, Tatjana ^a   Chao, Jeffrey A ^a   Larson, Daniel R ^b   Park, Hye Yoon ^a   Zenklusen, Daniel ^c   Shenoy, Shailesh M ^a   Singer, Robert H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; DNA PROBE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YEAST CELL;

ALGORITHMS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84861170964     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.451     Document Type: Article

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