Rational design of FRET sensor proteins based on mutually exclusive domain interactions

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1201-1205

  Merkx, Maarten ^a   Golynskiy, Misha V ^a   Lindenburg, Laurens H ^a   Vinkenborg, Jan L ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fluorescent sensor; F rster resonance energy transfer (FRET); Intracellular imaging; Protein engineering; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; MOLECULAR SENSOR; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84884623859     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130128     Document Type: Article

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