Confocal fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy study of protein-protein interactions of lens crystallins in living cells

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 854-861

  Liu, Bing Fen ^a   Anbarasu, Kumarasamy ^a   Liang, Jack J N ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN B2; CRYSTALLIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN C; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

CELL SURVIVAL; CRYSTALLINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 34250661067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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