Can the fluorescence of green fluorescent protein chromophore be related directly to the nativity of protein structure?

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 390, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1167-1170

  Melnik, B S ^a   Povarnitsyna, T V ^a   Melnik, T N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Fluorescence energy transfer; Fluorescence of GFP chromophore; Green fluorescence protein

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN CYCLE 3; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DENATURATION; FLUORESCENCE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENATURATION; WILD TYPE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 70450265297     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.10.109     Document Type: Article

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