High-purity enzymatic synthesis of site-specifically modified tRNA

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 941, Issue , 2012, Pages 195-212

  Hou, Ya Ming ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 O methylation of nucleic acid backbones; Nucleic acid hybridization; RNase H cleavage

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84934441519     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-113-4_15     Document Type: Article

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