Monitoring kinase and phosphatase activities through the cell cycle by ratiometric FRET

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 59, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Hukasova, Elvira ^a   Cascales, Helena Silva ^a   Kumar, Shravan R ^a   Lindqvist, Arne ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; FRET; Issue 59; Kinase; Live cell; Mitosis; Molecular Biology; Phosphatase; Plk1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863078405     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3410     Document Type: Article

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