Soh Nobuaki, Seto Daisuke, Nakano Koji, Imato Toshihiko
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Moto-oka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
Mol Biosyst. 2006 Feb;2(2):128-31. doi: 10.1039/b515777c. Epub 2005 Dec 16.
The first fluorescent labeling technology, which can induce not only an increase in the fluorescence intensity but also a shift in the fluorescence spectrum, has been developed for "ratiometric" measurements for a protein by utilizing a newly designed "field-sensitive" fluorescent probe and its corresponding unique amino acid tag.