Imaging the environment of green fluorescent protein

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3589-3595

  Suhling, Klaus ^a   Siegel, Jan ^a   Phillips, David ^a   French, Paul M W ^a   Lévêque Fort, Sandrine ^a,b   Webb, Stephen E D ^a   Davis, Daniel M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Lab de Photophysique Molec   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; ENVIRONMENT; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOLECULE; PHOTON; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 0036924064     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75359-9     Document Type: Article

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