Quantitative assessment of ratiometric bimolecular beacons as a tool for imaging single engineered RNA transcripts and measuring gene expression in living cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Song, Yang ^a   Shah, Akash Y ^a   Lekova, Virzhiniya ^b   Raj, Arjun ^a   Huang, Ling ^c   Behlke, Mark A ^c   Tsourkas, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL KINETICS; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOLECULAR BEACON; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATIOMETRIC BIMOLECULAR BEACON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHO CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FIBROSARCOMA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883485384     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt561     Document Type: Article

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