Comparative study reveals better far-red fluorescent protein for whole body imaging

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Luker, K E ^a   Pata, P ^b   Shemiakina, I I ^c,d   Pereverzeva, A ^c   Stacer, A C ^a   Shcherbo, D S ^c,d   Pletnev, V Z ^c   Skolnaja, M ^b   Lukyanov, K A ^c,e   Luker, G D ^a   Pata, I ^b   Chudakov, D M ^c,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d Evrogen JSC   (Russian Federation)

^e PRIVOLZHSKY RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; XENOGRAFT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; HEK293 CELLS; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RNA SPLICE SITES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84934878235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10332     Document Type: Article

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