Recent advances in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 634-641

  Thompson, Nancy L ^a   Lieto, Alena M ^a,b   Allen, Noah W ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID;

BINDING KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HISTOGRAM; MEMBRANE MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0036815766     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(02)00368-8     Document Type: Review

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