Using Spinach-based sensors for fluorescence imaging of intracellular metabolites and proteins in living bacteria

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 146-155

  Strack, Rita L ^a   Song, Wenjiao ^a   Jaffrey, Samie R ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSOR;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLOMICS; OPTICAL IMAGING; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84891715447     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.001     Document Type: Article

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