EGFP oligomers as natural fluorescence and hydrodynamic standards

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Vámosi, György ^a   Mücke, Norbert ^b   Müller, Gabriele ^b   Krieger, Jan Wolfgang ^b   Curth, Ute ^c   Langowski, Jörg ^b   Tóth, Katalin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STANDARDS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 85047916061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep33022     Document Type: Article

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