Visualization of Pit-1 Transcription Factor Interactions in the Living Cell Nucleus by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Microscopy

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1410-1419

  Day, Richard N ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; POU1F1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POU1F1 PROTEIN, RAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; RAT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032161918     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/mend.12.9.0168     Document Type: Article

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