Primary role of the chromophore bond length alternation in reversible photoconversion of red fluorescence proteins

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Drobizhev, Mikhail ^a   Hughes, Thomas E ^a   Stepanenko, Yuriy ^b   Wnuk, Pawel ^b   O'Donnell, Kieran ^a   Scott, J Nathan ^a   Callis, Patrik R ^a   Mikhaylov, Alexander ^a   Dokken, Leslie ^a   Rebane, Aleksander ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Polish Acaemy of Sciences   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHENOL; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; LASER; PH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LASERS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOL; PHOTOBLEACHING;

EID: 84866984030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00688     Document Type: Article

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