An Improved Ras Sensor for Highly Sensitive and Quantitative FRET-FLIM Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Oliveira, Ana F ^a,b   Yasuda, Ryohei ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RAS PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84872294746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052874     Document Type: Article

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