Detection of β-secretase dimerization in living cells using acceptor photobleaching FRET

Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 268-273

  Lu, Jin Ling ^a   Chu, Jun ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Zeng, Shao Qun ^a   Luo, Qing Ming ^a   Zhang, Zhi Hong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

secretase (BACE); Acceptor photobleaching; Alzheimer's disease (AD); Dimerization; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)

Indexed keywords

EID: 48949086540     PISSN: 10003282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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