Fluorescent proteins from nonbioluminescent Anthozoa species

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 969-973

  Matz, Mikhail V ^a   Fradkov, Arkady F ^a   Labas, Yulii A ^b   Savitsky, Aleksandr P ^c   Zaraisky, Andrey G ^a   Markelov, Mikhail L ^a   Lukyanov, Sergey A ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anthozoa; Fluorophore; Green fluorescent protein

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; JELLYFISH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CNIDARIA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032867477     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13657     Document Type: Article

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