A general approach to break the concentration barrier in single-molecule imaging

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 987-992

  Loveland, Anna B ^a,b,c   Habuchi, Satoshi ^a,d   Walter, Johannes C ^a   Van Oijen, Antoine M ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; DNA REPLICATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

DIFFUSION; DNA REPLICATION; FLAP ENDONUCLEASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN;

EUKARYOTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84867081368     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2174     Document Type: Article

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