Very bright green fluorescent proteins from the pontellid copepod Pontella mimocerami

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Hunt, Marguerite E ^a   Scherrer, Michael P ^a   Ferrari, Frank D ^b   Matz, Mikhail V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; DNA LIBRARY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PHOTOSTABILITY; PHYLOGENY; PONTELLA MIMOCERAMI; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTUM YIELD; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; PONTELLA MIMOCERAMI; PONTELLIDAE; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 77955359913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011517     Document Type: Article

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