Imaging the directed transport of single engineered RNA transcripts in real-time using ratiometric bimolecular beacons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Zajac, Allison L ^b   Huang, Lingyan ^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

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BEACON; RADIOMETRY; RATIOMETRIC BIMOLECULAR BEACON; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSPORT; TANDEM REPEAT;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84898614005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085813     Document Type: Article

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