High-throughput microfluidics to control and measure signaling dynamics in single yeast cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1181-1197

  Hansen, Anders S ^a   Hao, Nan ^b   OShea, Erin K ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MSN2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MSN2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FLUID TRANSPORT; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MICROSCOPY; YEAST CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84937829112     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.079     Document Type: Article

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