A rapid and sensitive method for measuring ribonucleic acid in ribosomal preparations

1 March 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal

Vol. 177 (3) , 977-979
https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1770977

Abstract

By using the fluorescence enhancement of ethidium bromide when it binds to RNA, a very rapid, simple and sensitive assay for the concentration of ribosomal RNA in complex mixtures has been devised.

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