Improved monomeric red, orange and yellow fluorescent proteins derived from Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1567-1572

  Shaner, Nathan C ^a   Campbell, Robert E ^a,c   Steinbach, Paul A ^a   Giepmans, Ben N G ^a,b   Palmer, Amy E ^a   Tsien, Roger Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MONOMERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GENETIC ENCODING; PHOTOSTABILITY;

PROTEINS;

MONOMER; ORANGE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; COLOR; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DISCOSOMA; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATURATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

DISCOSOMA; DISCOSOMA SP.;

EID: 11144267737     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1037     Document Type: Article

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