A novel fluorescent reporter system for monitoring and identifying RNase III activity and its target RNAs

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1167-1176

  Kim, Kwang Sun ^a,b   Park, Sunyoung ^a   Lee, Soohyun ^a   Kang, Sun Bin ^a   Lee, Jeongmin ^a   Lee, Seung Goo ^a,b   Ryu, Choong Min ^a,b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage vector; Cleavage target; Fluorescence; Ribonuclease III (RNase III); Translational fusion reporter system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868124113     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.21499     Document Type: Article

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