Optimized green fluorescent protein variants provide improved single cell resolution of transgene expression in ascidian embryos

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 456-467

  Zeller, Robert W ^a,b   Weldon, Don S ^b,c   Pellatiro, Mark A ^b   Cone, Angela C ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Nippon Chemi Con   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; BFP; CFP; DsRed; Electroporation; Gene expression; GFP; lacZ; Transgenic embryo; YFP

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CODON; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOLGI APPARATUS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSGENES; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 30744465948     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20644     Document Type: Article

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