Semi-rational engineering of a coral fluorescent protein into an efficient highlighter

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-238

  Tsutsui, Hidekazu ^a   Karasawa, Satoshi ^a,b   Shimizu, Hideaki ^a   Nukina, Nobuyuki ^a   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Amalgaam Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorescent protein; Mutagenesis; Optical labelling; Photoconversion; Two photon excitation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KIKG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANTHOZOA; FAVIA FAVUS; MAMMALIA; TRACHYPHYLLIA GEOFFROYI; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 16844384763     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400361     Document Type: Article

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