Author's Organization:Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University:(Present address)Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Higashinihon-Gakuen University School of Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Juntendo University
N-(3-Fluoranthyl) maleimide (FAM) is a fluorescent probe for thiols with a medium lifetime (∼20 nsec), which can be used for studies of time-dependent processes of biopolymers.