Investigating transcriptional regulation by fluorescence spectroscopy, from traditional methods to state-of-the-art single-molecule approaches

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1130, Issue , 2008, Pages 44-51

  Zorrilla, Silvia ^a,b,c   Lillo, M Pilar ^a   Chaix, Denis ^b,c   Margeat, Emmanuel ^b,c   Royer, Catherine A ^b,c   Declerck, Nathalie ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biomolecular interactions; Fluorescence anisotropy; Fluorescence correlation and cross correlation spectroscopy; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANISOTROPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; DYNAMICS; EMISSION ANISOTROPY; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 47249103805     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1430.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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