Fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy as demonstrated by measuring the activation of the serine/threonine kinase Akt

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-281

  Broussard, Joshua A ^a   Rappaz, Benjamin ^b   Webb, Donna J ^a   Brown, Claire M ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHOTOBLEACHING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT;

EID: 84873401872     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.147     Document Type: Article

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