Quantifying the transcriptional output of single alleles in single living mammalian cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 393-408

  Yunger, Sharon ^a   Rosenfeld, Liat ^a   Garini, Yuval ^a   Shav Tal, Yaron ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIN D1 GENE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAMMAL CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MS2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84873342846     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.008     Document Type: Article

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