Analyzing intracellular binding and diffusion with continuous fluorescence photobleaching

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3353-3363

  Wachsmuth, Malte ^a   Weidemann, Thomas ^a   Müller, Gabriele ^a   Hoffmann Rohrer, Urs W ^a   Knoch, Tobias A ^a   Waldeck, Waldemar ^a   Langowski, Jörg ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Div Biophysics of Macromolecules   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE H2B; HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLEACHING; CHROMATIN; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOLUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0038297629     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)70059-9     Document Type: Article

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