Tandem spinach array for mRNA imaging in living bacterial cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Jichuan ^a   Fei, Jingyi ^a   Leslie, Benjamin J ^a,d   Han, Kyu Young ^a,d   Kuhlman, Thomas E ^a   Ha, Taekjip ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 INDUCED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPINACH; SYNTHESIS; TANDEM REPEAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAC OPERON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINACIA OLERACEA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84948471468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17295     Document Type: Article

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