Energy Transfer Technologies to Monitor the Dynamics and Signaling Properties of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors in Living Cells

Biophysical Analysis of Membrane Proteins: Investigating Structure and Function

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 309-334

  Pin, Jean Philippe ^a   Ayoub, Mohammed Akli ^a   Maurel, Damien ^a   Perroy, Julie ^a   Trinquet, Eric ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CIS Bio International   (France)

Author keywords

Biophysical analysis; BRET an alternative to FRET; Dynamics properties; Energy transfer technologies; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET); G protein; Homogeneous time resolved fluorescence (HTRF); Membrane proteins; Signaling properties; Structure function relationships; Time resolved FRET (TR FRET); Whole cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449122955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527621224.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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