Structural basis of spectral shifts in the yellow-emission variants of green fluorescent protein

Structure

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1267-1277

  Wachter, Rebekka M ^a   Elsliger, Marc André ^a   Kallio, Karen ^a   Hanson, George T ^a   Remington, S James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent tag; Green fluorescent protein; pi pi stacking interaction; Spectral shift; Structure based design; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; SCYPHOZOA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0032532156     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(98)00127-0     Document Type: Article

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