Development and characterization of green fluorescent protein mutants with altered lifetimes

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 40, 2005, Pages 13377-13384

  Scruggs, Allan W ^a   Flores, Carole L ^b   Wachter, Rebekka ^b   Woodbury, Neal W ^b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BINARY MIXTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

DETECTOR CHANNELS; FLUOROPHORES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP); MUTATIONS;

PROTEINS;

CYSTEINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; SCREENING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYSTEINE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTIDINE; HYDROZOA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 26444599595     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050550f     Document Type: Article

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