Green fluorescent protein - A bright idea for the study of bacterial protein localization

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-18

  Phillips, Gregory J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Gene fusion; Green fluorescent protein; Hybrid protein; Protein localization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEA KINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MINC PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; PROTEIN CCKA; PROTEIN CHEY; PROTEIN CHEZ; PROTEIN COTA; PROTEIN CTRA; PROTEIN DACF; PROTEIN DIVJ; PROTEIN DIVK; PROTEIN FLIM; PROTEIN FTSI; PROTEIN FTSK; PROTEIN FTSQ; PROTEIN MINE; PROTEIN PLEC; PROTEIN POLC; PROTEIN SEQA; PROTEIN SOJ; PROTEIN SPOIVA; PROTEIN SPOOJ; PROTEIN ZIPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC SCREENING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0035899882     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00358-5     Document Type: Short Survey

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