Quantitative assays for cell fusion

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 475, Issue , 2008, Pages 347-361

  Shinn Thomas, Jessica H ^a   Scranton, Victoria L ^a   Mohler, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fusion; Complementation; Fluorescence histochemistry; lacZ; Protein interactions; Small interfering RNA; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84934444283     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-250-2_20     Document Type: Article

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