Nanopore long-read RNAseq reveals widespread transcriptional variation among the surface receptors of individual B cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Byrne, Ashley ^a,b   Beaudin, Anna E ^b,d   Olsen, Hugh E ^b   Jain, Miten ^b   Cole, Charles ^b   Palmer, Theron ^b   DuBois, Rebecca M ^b   Forsberg, E Camilla ^b,c   Akeson, Mark ^b   Vollmers, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ISOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BENCHMARKING; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; RNA; RODENT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOUSE; NANOPORE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BENCHMARKING; C57BL MOUSE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BENCHMARKING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85025142062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16027     Document Type: Article

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