The Photoproteins

Photoproteins in Bioanalysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-23

  Shimomura, Osamu ^a  

^a Photoprotein Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Discovery of photoprotein; Extracting photoproteins; Inhibitors of aequorin luminescence; Luminescence of aequorin; Photoprotein aequorin; Photoproteins in bioanalysis; Properties of aequorin; Purifying photoproteins; Specificity to Ca2+; Various types of photoproteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952791367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527609148.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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