Mapping Argonaute and conventional RNA-binding protein interactions with RNA at single-nucleotide resolution using HITS-CLIP and CIMS analysis

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 263-293

  Moore, Michael J ^a   Zhang, Chaolin ^a,b   Gantman, Emily Conn ^a   Mele, Aldo ^a   Darnell, Jennifer C ^a   Darnell, Robert B ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84893256374     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.012     Document Type: Article

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