Metabolic labeling of newly transcribed RNA for high resolution gene expression profiling of RNA synthesis, processing and decay in cell culture

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 78, 2013, Pages

  Rädle, Bernd ^a   Rutkoswki, Andrzej ^b   Ruzsics, Zsolt ^a   Friedel, Caroline C ^a   Koszinowski, Ulrich H ^a   Dölken, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 thiouridine; 4sU tagging; Biochemistry; Biological phenomena; Cellular biology; DNA; Eukaryota; Gene expression profiling; Genetics; Investigative techniques; Issue 78; Microarray analysis; Microbiology; Molecular biology; PCR; RNA; RNA decay; RNA processing; RNA synthesis; RNA seq; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881539278     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50195     Document Type: Article

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