Quantitative analysis of the fluorescence properties of intrinsically fluorescent proteins in living cells

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2566-2580

  Hess, Samuel T ^a   Sheets, Erin D ^b,c   Wagenknecht Wiesner, Alice ^b   Heikal, Ahmed A ^a,c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INDICATOR; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; JELLYFISH; MAST CELL LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALIA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 0141754061     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74679-7     Document Type: Article

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