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The Green Fluorescent Protein: A Key Tool to Study Chemical Processes in Living Cells
Author(s) -
Nienhaus G. Ulrich
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200804998
Subject(s) - green fluorescent protein , fluorescence , fluorescent protein , chemistry , key (lock) , microbiology and biotechnology , biophysics , nanotechnology , computational biology , biochemistry , biology , materials science , gene , physics , optics , ecology
Strike a light! The discovery, isolation, and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and related proteins has revolutionalized the specific fluorescence labeling of proteins in cells. GFPs, the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, even facilitate the imaging of various parts of cells in different colors (see picture).