Detection of higher-order G protein-coupled receptor oligomers by a combined BRET-BiFC technique

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2979-2984

  Gandia, Jorge ^a   Galino, Jorge ^b   Amaral, Olavo B ^a   Soriano, Aroa ^c   Lluís, Carme ^c   Franco, Rafael ^c   Ciruela, Francisco ^a  

^a Facultat de Medicina   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adenosine receptors; G protein coupled receptors; Receptor oligomerization

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 49849084462     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.07.045     Document Type: Article

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