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Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a bioluminescent polypeptide consisting of 238 residues isolated from the body of Aequorea victoria jellyfish.[1] GFP converts the blue chemiluminescent of aequorin in the jellyfish into green fluorescent light.[2] It remains unclear why these jellyfish use fluorescence, why green is better than blue, or why they produce a separate protein for green fluorescence as opposed to simply mutating the present aequorin to shift its wavelength,[3] but in the laboratory, GFP can be incorporated into a variety of biological systems in order to function as a marker protein. Since its discovery in 1962, GFP has become a significant contributor to the research of monitoring gene expression, localization, mobility, traffic, interactions between various membrane and cytoplasmic proteins, as well as many others. (more...)
- ↑ [1], Protein Database (PDBsum): 1ema. European Bioinformatics (EBI); 2009.
- ↑ [2], Yang F, Moss LG, Phillips GN Jr. 1996. The molecular structure of green fluorescent protein. Biotechnology. 14: 1246-1251. DOI 10.1038/nbt1096-1246.
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