Site-specific labeling of proteins for single-molecule FRET by combining chemical and enzymatic modification

Protein Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 640-646

  Jäger, Marcus ^a   Nir, Eyal ^a   Weiss, Shimon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating laser excitation; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Fluorescence aided molecular sorting; Protein labeling; Single molecule spectroscopy; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR 2; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

CYSTEINE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMINE; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 33644535814     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.051851506     Document Type: Article

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