High-throughput assessment of microRNA activity and function using microRNA sensor and decoy libraries

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 840-846

  Mullokandov, Gavriel ^a   Baccarini, Alessia ^a   Ruzo, Albert ^a   Jayaprakash, Anitha D ^a   Tung, Navpreet ^a   Israelow, Benjamin ^a   Evans, Matthew J ^a   Sachidanandam, Ravi ^a   Brown, Brian D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 142; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 22; MICRORNA 223; MICRORNA 331; MICRORNA 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VECTORS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84864448111     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2078     Document Type: Article

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