Novel Fluorescence-Based Biosensors Incorporating Unnatural Amino Acids

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 589, Issue , 2017, Pages 191-219

  Niu, Wei ^a   Guo, Jiantao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosensors; Fluorescence; Fluorescent proteins; Genetic code expansion; Protein engineering; Unnatural amino acids

Indexed keywords

4 BORONOPHENYLALANINE; AMINO ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; 4-BORONOPHENYLALANINE; BORON DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PHENYLALANINE; PHOTOPROTEIN;

BIOSENSOR; CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLITE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BORON COMPOUNDS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 85013356507     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2017.01.012     Document Type: Chapter

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