Bright far-red fluorescent protein for whole-body imaging

Nature Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 741-746

  Shcherbo, Dmitry ^a   Merzlyak, Ekaterina M ^b   Chepurnykh, Tatiana V ^b   Fradkov, Arkady F ^a   Ermakova, Galina V ^a   Solovieva, Elena A ^a   Lukyanov, Konstantin A ^a   Bogdanova, Ekaterina A ^a   Zaraisky, Andrey G ^a   Lukyanov, Sergey ^a   Chudakov, Dmitriy M ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b Evrogen JSC   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; KATUSHKA; MKATE; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTRUM; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSGENES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34548363677     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1083     Document Type: Article

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