Extended stokes shift in fluorescent proteins: Chromophore-protein interactions in a near-infrared TagRFP675 variant

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Piatkevich, Kiryl D ^a   Malashkevich, Vladimir N ^b   Morozova, Kateryna S ^a   Nemkovich, Nicolai A ^c   Almo, Steven C ^b   Verkhusha, Vladislav V ^a  

^a Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENT AGENT; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PH; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84878704118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01847     Document Type: Article

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