A Computational Tool for Designing FRET Protein Biosensors by Rigid-Body Sampling of Their Conformational Space

Structure

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 515-523

  Pham, Elizabeth ^a   Chiang, Jason ^a,b   Li, Isaac ^a   Shum, Warren ^b   Truong, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 34247891681     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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