Flavin Mononucleotide-Based Fluorescent Proteins Function in Mammalian Cells without Oxygen Requirement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Walter, Janine ^a,c   Hausmann, Sascha ^b   Drepper, Thomas ^c   Puls, Michael ^b   Eggert, Thorsten ^b   Dihné, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Evocatal GmbH   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE BASED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL ASSAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSGENE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SIZE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; OXYGEN; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 84866292806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043921     Document Type: Article

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