Immunofluorescence Microscopy for Localization of Arabidopsis Chloroplast Proteins

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 774, Issue , 2011, Pages 33-58

  Vitha, Stanislav ^a   Osteryoung, Katherine W ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldehyde fixation; Anti fade mounting medium; Antigen retrieval; Autofluorescence; Cryosectioning; Embedding

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN; PARAFFIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLAST PROTEINS; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 80052950611     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-234-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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