Making genes green: Creating green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions with blunt-end PCR products

BioTechniques

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-98

  Lo, Wayne ^a   Rodgers, William ^a   Hughes, Thomas ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0031869458     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/98251st05     Document Type: Article

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