Automating single subunit counting of membrane proteins in mammalian cells

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 35912-35921

  McGuire, Hugo ^a   Aurousseau, Mark R P ^a,b   Bowie, Derek ^a,b   Bluncks, Rikard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSOLS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MAMMALIAN CELLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NATIVE PROTEINS; PLASMA MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN STOICHIOMETRY; SINGLE-MOLECULE; TAGGED PROTEINS; XENOPUS OOCYTE;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL MEMBRANES; FLUORESCENCE; MAMMALS; PHOTOBLEACHING; STOICHIOMETRY;

PROTEINS;

ALPHA1 GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR GLUK2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SINGLE SUBUNIT COUNTING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STOICHIOMETRY; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 84867805339     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.402057     Document Type: Article

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