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Using a human keratinocyte cell line transfected with cyan fluorescent protein (CFP)‐ and yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)‐tagged Cx26 connexins as an example, FRET information at homotypic gap junctions is measured and compared with well‐established methods. Results indicate that the new approach is sensitive, flexible, instrument independent and solely FRET dependent. It can achieve FRET estimations similar to that from a sensitized emission FRET method. This approach has a great advantage in providing the relative concentrations of the donor and the acceptor; this is, for example, very important in the comparative study of cell populations with variable expression levels.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Microscopy","year":2004,"id":31725,"datarank":5.3581533006860695,"base_score":4.605170185988092,"endowment":4.605170185988092,"self_citation_contribution":0.6907755278982138,"citation_network_contribution":4.667377772787856,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6907755278982138,"citer_contribution":4.667377772787856,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":99,"citer_count":89,"citers_with_citation_signal":79,"citers_with_endowment":79,"datacite_reuse_total":10,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":169407,"name":"W. L. 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