Recovery of Red Fluorescent Protein Chromophore Maturation Deficiency through Rational Design

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Moore, Matthew M ^a   Oteng Pabi, Samuel K ^b   Pandelieva, Antonia T ^b   Mayo, Stephen L ^a,c   Chica, Roberto A ^b,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84871443515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052463     Document Type: Article

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