Chapter 3 A Fluorescent Window Into Protein Folding and Aggregation in Cells

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 89, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-70

  Ignatova, Zoya ^a   Gierasch, Lila M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; PROTEIN;

CELL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

CELL LINE; CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 57949084890     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)00603-1     Document Type: Review

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