Using FRET to study RanGTP gradients in live mouse oocytes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 957, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-120

  Dumont, Julien ^a   Verlhac, Marie Hélène ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Memolife Laboratory of Excellence and Paris Science Lettre   (France)

Author keywords

Live imaging; Mouse; Oocyte; RanGTPase; Ratiometric FRET

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871909745     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-191-2_7     Document Type: Article

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