A bright cyan-excitable orange fluorescent protein facilitates dual-emission microscopy and enhances bioluminescence imaging in vivo

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 760-767

  Chu, Jun ^a,b,j   Oh, Younghee ^a,b   Sens, Alex ^c   Ataie, Niloufar ^c   Dana, Hod ^d   Macklin, John J ^d   Laviv, Tal ^e   Welf, Erik S ^f   Dean, Kevin M ^f   Zhang, Feijie ^b   Kim, Benjamin B ^a   Tang, Clement Tran ^c   Hu, Michelle ^c   Baird, Michelle A ^g,h   Davidson, Michael W ^g,h   Kay, Mark A ^b   Fiolka, Reto ^f   Yasuda, Ryohei ^e   Kim, Douglas S ^d   Ng, Ho Leung ^c,i   Lin, Michael Z ^a,b   more..

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^j SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CITRUS FRUITS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; MULTIPLEXING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; PROBES; PROTEINS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DEEP TISSUE IMAGING; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ORANGE FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY;

TISSUE;

FLUORESCENT DYE; LUCIFERASE; ORANGE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMATOPHORE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BOND; ILLUMINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; STAINING; SYNTHESIS;

FLUORESCENT DYES; LIGHTING; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84978427313     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3550     Document Type: Article

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