A guide to choosing fluorescent proteins

Nature Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 905-909

  Shaner, Nathan C ^a   Steinbach, Paul A ^a,b   Tsien, Roger Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 30944467113     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth819     Document Type: Article

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