FRET imaging of Pit-l protein interactions in living cells

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 154-160

  Periasamy, Ammasi ^a   Day, Richard N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET); Microscopy, green fluorescent proteins (GFPs); Pit 1

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROTEINS;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIVING CELLS; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING;

CELLS;

EID: 0032050682     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429872     Document Type: Article

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