Fluorescent proteins for live cell imaging: Opportunities, limitations, and challenges

IUBMB Life

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1029-1042

  Wiedenmann, Jörg ^a   Oswald, Franz ^b   Nienhaus, Gerd Ulrich ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral fluorescent proteins; Far red fluorescent protein; GFP; Live cell imaging; Monomeric red fluorescent protein; Photoactivation; Photoconversion; RFP; Super resolution microscopy

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PHOTOPROTEIN;

CHROMATOPHORE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVE CELL IMAGING; MARINE SPECIES; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANTHOZOA; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMALS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77449152432     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.256     Document Type: Review

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