The three-dimensional structure of green fluorescent protein and its implications for function and design

Methods of Biochemical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue , 2005, Pages 67-82

  Phillips Jr , George N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; GENETICS; HYDROZOA; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; DIMERIZATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROZOA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33644627179     PISSN: 00766941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/0471739499.ch4     Document Type: Article

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