Photobleaching recovery and anisotropy decay of green fluorescent protein GFP-S65T in solution and cells: Cytoplasmic viscosity probed by green fluorescent protein translational and rotational diffusion

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1900-1907

  Swaminathan, R ^a   Hoang, Cathy P ^a   Verkman, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMATOPHORE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALIA; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0031000601     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78835-0     Document Type: Article

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