RNAsnap™: A rapid, quantitative and inexpensive, method for isolating total RNA from bacteria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Stead, Mark B ^a   Agrawal, Ankit ^b   Bowden, Katherine E ^a   Nasir, Rakia ^a   Mohanty, Bijoy K ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^a   Kushner, Sidney R ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIMER EXTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA LIGATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SIMPLE NUCLEIC ACID PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; YEASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84869010693     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks680     Document Type: Article

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