Automated live cell imaging of green fluorescent protein degradation in individual fibroblasts

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 827-834

  Halter, Michael ^a   Tona, Alex ^b   Bhadriraju, Kiran ^b   Plant, Anne L ^a   Elliott, John T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Destabilized GFP; Green fluorescent protein; Live cell microscopy; Micropatterning; NIH 3T3 cells; Protein degradation rate constant; Proteolysis; Quantitative microscopy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TENASCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL CLONE; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; FIBROBLAST; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HALF LIFE TIME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; FIBROBLASTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HALF-LIFE; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 35348981375     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20461     Document Type: Article

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