Smart fluorescent proteins: Innovation for barrier-free superresolution imaging in living cells

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 491-507

  Tiwari, Dhermendra K ^a   Nagai, Takeharu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorescent protein; Photoactivation localization microscopy; Photoswitching; reversibly saturable optical fluorescence transition; stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy; Superresolution imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOACTIVATABLE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOCONVERTIBLE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOSWITCHABLE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLEACHING; CELL MOTILITY; CHROMATOPHORE; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; ILLUMINATION; MICROSCOPY; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877806393     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12064     Document Type: Review

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