Intracellular FRET-based probes: A review

Methods and Applications in Fluorescence

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Rowland, Clare E ^a,b   Brown, Carl W ^a,c   Medintz, Igor L ^a   Delehanty, James B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Energy transfer; FRET; Intracellular

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976568345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20506120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/3/4/042006     Document Type: Review

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