Exploration of fluorescent protein voltage probes based on circularly permuted fluorescent proteins

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2009, Pages

  Gautam, Sunita Ghimire ^a   Perron, Amelie ^a   Mutoh, Hiroki ^a   Knöpfel, Thomas ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular permutation; mKate; Optical probes; Voltage sensor domain; Voltage sensors; Voltage sensitive fluorescent protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950459356     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.16.014.2009     Document Type: Article

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