Digital Quantification of Proteins and mRNA in Single Mammalian Cells

Molecular Cell

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 914-924

  Albayrak, Cem ^a   Jordi, Christian A ^a   Zechner, Christoph ^a   Lin, Jing ^a   Bichsel, Colette A ^a,c   Khammash, Mustafa ^a   Tay, Savaş ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD147 ANTIGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROMOLECULE; MAMMAL CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROXIMITY LIGATION ASSAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD147; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962564367     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.02.030     Document Type: Article

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