Improving the photostability of bright monomeric orange and red fluorescent proteins

Nature Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 545-551

  Shaner, Nathan C ^a,c   Lin, Michael Z ^a   McKeown, Michael R ^a   Steinbach, Paul A ^a   Hazelwood, Kristin L ^b   Davidson, Michael W ^b   Tsien, Roger Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MONOMER; ORANGE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLEACHING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ILLUMINATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OPTICS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; DISCOSOMA SP.; ENTACMAEA QUADRICOLOR;

EID: 44449109239     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1209     Document Type: Article

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