Chemical nature of the light emitter of the Aequorea green fluorescent protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 13617-13622

  Niwa, Haruki ^a   Inouye, Satoshi ^b,c   Hirano, Takashi ^a   Matsuno, Tatsuki ^a   Kojima, Satoshi ^a   Kubota, Masayuki ^a   Ohashi, Mamoru ^a   Tsuji, Frederick I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b CHISSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

excited state; imidazolone; low temperature fluorescence; phenolate anion; photoisomerization

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; JELLYFISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AEQUOREA; AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030474352     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.24.13617     Document Type: Article

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