Green Fluorescent Protein

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1ema

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Background

Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

Structure

You can take a close look at the of GFP in the PDB entry 1ema.

The chromophore

Additional information on green fluorescent protein

  • Roger Y. Tsien (1998) The Green Fluorescent Protein. Annual Review of Biochemistry 67, 509-544.
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