Flavin-based fluorescent proteins: Emerging paradigms in biological imaging

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-23

  Mukherjee, Arnab ^a,c   Schroeder, Charles M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE;

BIO-IMAGING; BIO-SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PH STABILITY; PHOTO-STABILITY;

PROTEINS;

FLAVIN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLAVOPROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; LOV PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLAVIN BASED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; OXYGEN; SINGLET OXYGEN; 4,6-DINITRO-O-CRESOL; DINITRO ORTHO CRESOL; PHOTOPROTEIN; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; OXIDATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; THERMOSTABILITY; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; BRIGHTNESS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTOTAXIS; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY;

ANIMALS; DINITROCRESOLS; FLAVINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OXYGEN;

EID: 84906220820     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.07.010     Document Type: Review

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