New and Old Reagents for Fluorescent Protein Tagging of Microtubules in Fission Yeast. Experimental and Critical Evaluation

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 97, Issue C, 2010, Pages 147-172

  Snaith, Hilary A ^a   Anders, Andreas ^a   Samejima, Itaru ^a   Sawin, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; FLUORESCENT DYE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOOK; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; STAINING;

FLUORESCENT DYES; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 77955608542     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)97009-X     Document Type: Book

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