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TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 605-613Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.10.005
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 070358] Funding Source: Medline
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Green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, and its mutant variants, are the only fully genetically encoded fluorescent probes available and they have proved to be excellent tools for labeling living specimens. Since 1999, numerous GFP homologues have been discovered in Anthozoa, Hydrozoa and Copepoda species, demonstrating the broad evolutionary and spectral diversity of this protein family. Mutagenic studies gave rise to diversified and optimized variants of fluorescent proteins, which have never been encountered in nature. This article gives an overview of the GFP-like proteins developed to date and their most common applications to study living specimens using fluorescence microscopy.
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