A long Stokes shift red fluorescent Ca 2+ indicator protein for two-photon and ratiometric imaging

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wu, Jiahui ^a   Abdelfattah, Ahmed S ^a   Miraucourt, Loïs S ^b   Kutsarova, Elena ^b   Ruangkittisakul, Araya ^a   Zhou, Hang ^a   Ballanyi, Klaus ^a   Wicks, Geoffrey ^c   Drobizhev, Mikhail ^c   Rebane, Aleksander ^c,d   Ruthazer, Edward S ^b   Campbell, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CALCIUM; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTON;

BRAIN; CALCIUM; COLOR; GERM CELL; INFRARED RADIATION; PROTEIN; STOKES FORMULA; VISUALIZATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RATIOMETRIC IMAGING; SCREENING; SLICE CULTURE; TADPOLE; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL IMAGING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84923352094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6262     Document Type: Article

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