Engineering of weak helper interactions for high-efficiency FRET probes

Nature Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1021-1027

  Grünberg, Raik ^a,c   Burnier, Julia V ^a,b   Ferrar, Tony ^a,b   Beltran Sastre, Violeta ^a,b   Stricher, François ^a,b   Van Der Sloot, Almer M ^a,c   Garcia Olivas, Raquel ^a,b   Mallabiabarrena, Arrate ^a,b   Sanjuan, Xavier ^a,b   Zimmermann, Timo ^a,b   Serrano, Luis ^a,b,d  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RAF KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84884873624     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2625     Document Type: Article

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