Hetero-oligomeric tagging diminishes non-specific aggregation of target proteins fused with Anthozoa fluorescent proteins

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 371, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-114

  Bulina, Maria E ^a   Verkhusha, Vladistav V ^b   Staroverov, Dmitry B ^c   Chudakov, Dmitry M ^a   Lukyanov, Konstantin A ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Evrogen JSC   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Coral fluorescent protein; Green fluorescent protein; Heterotetramer; Protein labelling; Red fluorescent protein; Tetramerization

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MICROORGANISMS; OLIGOMERS;

FLUORESCENT PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

BETA ACTIN; BINDING PROTEIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TAU34; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLOR; CYTOPLASM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TETRAMERIZATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CHO CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0242380805     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20021796     Document Type: Article

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