Fretting about FRET: Failure of the ideal dipole approximation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4779-4788

  Muñoz Losa, Aurora ^a   Curutchet, Carles ^b   Krueger, Brent P ^c   Hartsell, Lydia R ^c   Mennucci, Benedetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COULOMBIC COUPLING; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DIPOLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IDEAL DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULE; MOTION; PERFORMANCE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 68949113782     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.052     Document Type: Article

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