Visualising individual green fluorescent proteins with a near field optical microscope

Cytometry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-246

  Garcia Parajo, M F ^a   Veerman, J A ^a   Segers Nolten, G M J ^a   De Grooth, B G ^a   Greve, J ^a   Van Hulst, N F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent proteins (GFP); Near field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM); Single molecule detection (SMD)

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTODYNAMICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033168390     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19990701)36:3<239::AID-CYTO14>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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