Flow Cytometry and GFP: A Novel Assay for Measuring the Import and Turnover of Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Proteins in Live PC12 Cells

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-22

  Sirk, Daniel P ^a,b   Zhu, Ziping ^a   Wadia, Jehangir S ^c   Mills, Linda R ^a,b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; GFP; Mitochondria; PC12; Protein import

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL CYANIDE CHLOROPHENYLHYDRAZONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TARGETED GREEN FLUORESCENT FUSION PROTEIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SILENCING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; REPRESSOR GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0346244002     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.10084     Document Type: Article

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