Quantitative understanding of the energy transfer between fluorescent proteins connected via flexible peptide linkers

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 44, 2006, Pages 13183-13192

  Evers, Toon H ^a   Van Dongen, Elisabeth M W M ^a   Faesen, Alex C ^a   Meijer, E W ^a   Merkx, Maarten ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; CONFORMATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET); PEPTIDE LINKERS; PEPTIDES; TIME RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE;

PROTEINS;

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STEADY STATE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES;

EID: 33750728028     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi061288t     Document Type: Article

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