Pros and cons of pDNA and mRNA transfection to study mRNA translation in mammalian cells

Gene

Volumn 578, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-6

  Andreev, Dmitry E ^a   Terenin, Ilya M ^a,b   Dmitriev, Sergey E ^a,b   Shatsky, Ivan N ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; MRNA; Plasmid DNA; Reporter gene; Transfection; Translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84955239930     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.12.008     Document Type: Review

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