Fluobodies: Green fluorescent single-chain Fv fusion proteins

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 121-130

  Griep, Remko A ^a   Van Twisk, Charlotte ^a   Van Der Wolf, Jan M ^a   Schots, Arjen ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fusion proteins; Green fluorescent protein; Single chain Fv fragments

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 0032758727     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00131-3     Document Type: Article

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