Natural photoreceptors as a source of fluorescent proteins, biosensors, and optogenetic tools

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 519-550

  Shcherbakova, Daria M ^a   Shemetov, Anton A ^a   Kaberniuk, Andrii A ^a   Verkhusha, Vladislav V ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophytochrome; BphP; CRY2; IRFP; LOV domain; Optogenetics; Phytochrome

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; FLUORESCENT DYE; OXYGEN; PHOTOTROPIN; PHYTOCHROME; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE; PHOTOPROTEIN;

BIOSENSOR; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; DEINOCOCCUS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

MAMMALIA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DEINOCOCCUS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; OPTOGENETICS; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 84930732185     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034411     Document Type: Review

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