Deep sequencing reveals complex spurious transcription from transiently transfected plasmids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Nejepinska, Jana ^a   Malik, Radek ^a   Moravec, Martin ^a   Svoboda, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LUCIFERASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP SEQUENCING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSIENT PLASMID TRANSFECTION;

CELL LINE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; RNA, ANTISENSE;

EID: 84865080613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043283     Document Type: Article

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