Genetically encoded tools for RNA imaging in living cells

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 42-49

  Rath, Anna K ^a   Rentmeister, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; MACHINERY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROBES; PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

APTAMERS; CELLULAR MACHINERY; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMAGING PROBE; LIVING CELL; RNA LOCALIZATIONS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN; SUB-CELLULAR;

RNA;

APTAMER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 84906748293     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.07.012     Document Type: Review

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