Fluorescence fluctuation analysis of receptor kinase dimerization

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • N. Dissmeyer
  • A. Schnittger
Book title Plant kinases: Methods and protocols
ISBN
  • 9781617792632
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781617792649
Series Methods in molecular biology
Pages (from-to) 199-215
Publisher New York: Humana Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Abstract Receptor kinases are essential for the cellular perception of signals. The classical model for activation of the receptor kinase involves dimerization, induced by the binding of the ligand. The mechanisms by which plant receptors transduce signals across the cell surface are largely unknown but plant receptors seem to dimerize as well. In this chapter, we describe two fluorescence fluctuation techniques, fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy and photon counting histogram analysis, to study the oligomerization state of receptor kinases in living plant cells in a quantitative manner.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-264-9_11
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