Imaging enzyme-triggered self-assembly of small molecules inside live cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gao, Yuan ^a   Shi, Junfeng ^a   Yuan, Dan ^a   Xu, Bing ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOFIBER;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLOW KINETICS; HELA CELL; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTUM YIELD;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELLS; ENZYMES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOFIBERS; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 84866127509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2040     Document Type: Article

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