Green fluorescent protein, the darling of cell biologists and biomedical researchers, may do more than give off light. When the protein fluoresces — allowing researchers to see where cells and ...

It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)1. Since then, the color ...

Supramolecular protein assemblies can provide novel nano-architectures with diverse structures and functions. Here, the authors report a fabrication strategy for a series of monodisperse protein ...

New fluorescent drug lights up nerve tissue under special imaging equipment, giving surgeons a visual edge during procedure.

Nobel Prize in chemistry commends finding and use of green fluorescent protein. ... This function differs from that of bioluminescent proteins, which can generate their own light.

Biological functions of fluorescent proteins remain incompletely understood 25. The data presented here suggest a previously unknown GFP function: induction of a light-driven electron transfer.

Amphioxus encodes the largest known family of green fluorescent proteins, which have diversified into distinct functional classes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009; 9 (1): 77 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-77 ...

Fluorescent proteins, which are compounds that can absorb and then emit light, have become a powerful instrument in the cell biologist's toolkit—so powerful, in fact, that the discovery and ...

That protein was green and came from a fluorescent jellyfish. By tinkering with that green protein, blue, turquoise and yellow variants followed. In the 2000s, a red fluorescent protein was discovered ...

Although Mikhail Matz and colleagues might dispute that their isolation of a red fluorescent protein from a nonbioluminescent marine animal (Discosoma sp.) was serendipitous, their hypothesis was, at ...

Aglow under the sea In 2007, a different group of researchers found a fluorescent protein in the lancelet, a tiny somewhat eel-like marine creature closely related to vertebrates.

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a family of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) in a primitive sea animal ...