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Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching MeSH Descriptor Data 2023


MeSH Heading
Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching
Tree Number(s)
E05.196.712.516.600.393
Unique ID
D036681
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D036681
Scope Note
A method used to study the lateral movement of MEMBRANE PROTEINS and LIPIDS. A small area of a cell membrane is bleached by laser light and the amount of time necessary for unbleached fluorescent marker-tagged proteins to diffuse back into the bleached site is a measurement of the cell membrane's fluidity. The diffusion coefficient of a protein or lipid in the membrane can be calculated from the data. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995).
Entry Term(s)
FRAP (Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching)
Fluorescence Photobleaching Recovery
Previous Indexing
Fluorescence (1976-2002)
Public MeSH Note
2003
History Note
2003
Date Established
2003/01/01
Date of Entry
2002/07/03
Revision Date
2004/07/07
Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching Preferred
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