Using the Bacteriophage MS2 Coat Protein-RNA Binding Interaction to Visualize RNA in Living Cells

Probes and Tags to Study Biomolecular Function: for Proteins, RNA, and Membranes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 163-174

  Chao, Jeffrey A ^a   Czaplinski, Kevin ^a   Singer, Robert H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent protein; Live cell imaging; Microscopy for live cell imaging; MS2 reporter system; Real time analysis; RNA imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889375662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527623099.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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