An integral membrane green fluorescent protein marker, Us9-GFP, is quantitatively retained in cells during propidium iodide-based cell cycle analysis by flow cytometry

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 322-328

  Kalejta, Robert F ^a   Brideau, Amy D ^a   Banfield, Bruce W ^a   Beavis, Andrew J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Flow cytometry; Green fluorescent protein; Pseudorabies virus; Transient transfection; Us9

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CELL MARKER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OSTEOSARCOMA; PERMEABILITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

SUID HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 0033541390     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4427     Document Type: Article

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