Illuminating plant biology: Using fluorescent proteins for high-throughput analysis of protein localization and function in plants

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-138

  DeBlasio, Stacy L ^a   Sylvester, Anne W ^b   Jackson, David ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Fluorescent proteins; Functional profiling; Global expression; High throughput techniques; Maize

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ARABIDOPSIS; SCYPHOZOA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77951985351     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp060     Document Type: Article

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