Monitoring of ubiquitin-proteasome activity in living cells using a degron (dgn)-destabilized green fluorescent protein (GFP)-based reporter protein

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 69, 2012, Pages

  Greussing, Ruth ^a   Unterluggauer, Hermann ^a   Koziel, Rafal ^a   Maier, Andrea B ^b   Jansen Dürr, Pidder ^a  

^a Molecular and Cell Biology   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Cellular biology; Flow cytometry; GFP; GFP dgn; GFP dgnFS; Human diploid fibroblasts; Issue 69; Lentiviral particles; Medicine; Molecular biology; Plasmid; Proteasome activity; Vector; Virology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869238255     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3327     Document Type: Article

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