Imaging the lateral diffusion of membrane molecules with quantum dots

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2628-2634

  Bannai, Hiroko ^a   Lévi, Sabine ^a   Schweizer, Claude ^a   Dahan, Maxime ^a   Triller, Antoine ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METABOLISM;

CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34250184742     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.429     Document Type: Article

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