Balance between ultrafast parallel reactions in the green fluorescent protein has a structural origin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1902-1912

  Van Thor, Jasper J ^a   Ronayne, Kate L ^b   Towrie, Michael ^b   Sage, J Timothy ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 50349096091     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.129957     Document Type: Article

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