When Wavelengths Collide: Bias in Cell Abundance Measurements Due to Expressed Fluorescent Proteins

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1024-1027

  Hecht, Ariel ^a,b,c   Endy, Drew ^a,c   Salit, Marc ^a,b,c   Munson, Matthew S ^a,b,c  

^a Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

abundance; OD600; OD700; optical density; RFP

Indexed keywords

RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIQUID CULTURE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS;

EID: 84987903943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00072     Document Type: Article

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