Crystal structure of a new cyan fluorescent protein and its hue-shifted variants

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 5276-5283

  Kikuchi, Akihiro ^a   Fukumura, Eiko ^a,b   Karasawa, Satoshi ^c,d,e   Shiro, Yoshitsugu ^a   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^c  

^a RIKEN SPring 8 Center ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d Amalgaam Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e Medical & Biological Laboratories Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; EMISSION PEAKS; FLUORESCENT COLORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KEY FACTORS; MUTANT PROTEINS; NON-COVALENT INTERACTION; POLAR CHAIN; RED SHIFT; SERINE RESIDUES; SPACE BETWEEN; STRUCTURAL COMPARISON; TRIPEPTIDE; WATER MOLECULE; WILD TYPES;

AMINO ACIDS; CHROMOPHORES; CLONING; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIZATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TUNING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KCY; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COELENTERATE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUNGIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 67049095711     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801658p     Document Type: Article

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