Exploiting post-transcriptional regulation to probe RNA structures in vivo via fluorescence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages e13-

  Sowa, Steven W ^a   Vazquez Anderson, Jorge ^b   Clark, Chelsea A ^b   De La Pena, Ricardo ^b   Dunn, Kaitlin ^b   Fung, Emily K ^b   Khoury, Mark J ^b   Contreras, Lydia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PROCEDURES; TETRAHYMENA;

FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 84941086596     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1191     Document Type: Article

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