Understanding structure - Function relationships in the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn , Issue 58, 1999, Pages 19-30

  Cubitt, Andrew B ^a   Woollenweber, Leslie A ^a   Heim, Roger ^a  

^a Aurora Biosciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; SCYPHOZOA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCYPHOZOA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0032607587     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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