Protein fragment bimolecular fluorescence complementation analyses for the in vivo study of protein-protein interactions and cellular protein complex localizations

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1062, Issue , 2014, Pages 629-658

  Waadt, Rainer ^a   Schlücking, Kathrin ^b   Schroeder, Julian I ^a   Kudla, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium infiltration; Bimolecular fluorescence complementation; Protein fragment complementation; Protein protein interactions

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIMOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE COMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GERMINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PLANT EPIDERMIS CELL; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT IMMUNITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEEDS; TOBACCO; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84934440484     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-580-4_33     Document Type: Article

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