Fluorescent labeling of tetracysteine-tagged proteins in intact cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1666-1677

  Hoffmann, Carsten ^a   Gaietta, Guido ^b   Zürn, Alexander ^a   Adams, Stephen R ^c   Terrillon, Sonia ^c,d   Ellisman, Mark H ^b   Tsien, Roger Y ^c   Lohse, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 77957573768     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.129     Document Type: Article

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