Fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool to investigate protein interactions

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-49

  Brown, Martha P ^a   Royer, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; PROTEIN;

ANISOTROPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0031015166     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(97)80156-5     Document Type: Article

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