It's cheap to be colorful: Anthozoans show a slow turnover of GFP-like proteins

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2496-2505

  Leutenegger, Alexandra ^a   D'Angelo, Cecilia ^a   Matz, Mikhail V ^b   Denzel, Andrea ^a   Oswald, Franz ^a   Salih, Anya ^c   Nienhaus, G Ulrich ^a,d   Wiedenmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral pigments; Green fluorescent protein; Photoconversion; Protein half life; Protein metabolism

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN LIKE PROTEIN; PIGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORAL REEF; ENERGY; HALF LIFE TIME; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; COLOR; DARKNESS; KINETICS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; LOBOPHYLLIA HEMPRICHII; MONTASTRAEA CAVERNOSA;

EID: 34247617823     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05785.x     Document Type: Article

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