Red light, green light: Probing single molecules using alternating-laser excitation

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 738-744

  Santoso, Vusdi ^a   Hwang, Ling Chin ^a   le Reste, Ludovic ^a   Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternating laser excitation (ALEX); Biomolecular interaction; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET); Protein DNA interaction; Single molecule fluorescence; Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF)

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING LASER EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GEL; GREEN LIGHT; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; RED LIGHT; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE;

COLOR; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GELS; LASERS;

EID: 49349084992     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360738     Document Type: Article

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