A palette of fluorescent proteins optimized for diverse cellular environments

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Costantini, Lindsey M ^a   Baloban, Mikhail ^a   Markwardt, Michele L ^b   Rizzo, Mark ^b   Guo, Feng ^a   Verkhusha, Vladislav V ^a   Snapp, Erik L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

CELL ORGANELLE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; OXIC CONDITIONS; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMATOPHORE; DISULFIDE BOND; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECRETORY PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DOG; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; MDCK CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; STAINING; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE; DOGS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MADIN DARBY CANINE KIDNEY CELLS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL IMAGING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84935506373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8670     Document Type: Article

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