Dual-colour imaging of RNAs using quencher- and fluorophore-binding aptamers

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2015, Pages

  Arora, Ankita ^a   Sunbul, Murat ^a   Jäschke, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; APTAMER; DINITROANILINE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLUORESCEIN; RNA; SULFORHODAMINE B; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; IN VITRO SELECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; SYSTEMATIC EVOLUTION OF LIGANDS BY EXPONENTIAL ENRICHMENT APTAMER TECHNIQUE;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; COLOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RNA; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84983770697     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv718     Document Type: Article

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