Glycine Insertion Makes Yellow Fluorescent Protein Sensitive to Hydrostatic Pressure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Watanabe, Tomonobu M ^a,b,c   Imada, Katsumi ^c   Yoshizawa, Keiko ^a   Nishiyama, Masayoshi ^d   Kato, Chiaki ^e   Abe, Fumiyoshi ^e,f   Morikawa, Takamitsu J ^c   Kinoshita, Miki ^c   Fujita, Hideaki ^a,b   Yanagida, Toshio ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MOLECULAR PROBE; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VISCOSITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE;

EID: 84883161248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073212     Document Type: Article

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