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Jelly Fish and Green Fluorescent Protein [1]

By: Guerrero, Anna Keywords: Proteins [2]

The crystal jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, produces and emits light, called bioluminescence. Its DNA codes for sequence of 238amino acids that forms a protein called Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). FP is folded so that a part of the protein, called thechromophore, is located in the center of the protein. The chemical structure of the chromophore emits a green fluorescencewhen exposed to light in the range of blue to ultraviolet.

SubjectGreen fluorescent protein [3] GFP (Protein) [4] Green jellyfish protein [5] Fluorescent polymers [6] proteins [7] Jellyfish and other seajellies [8] Biofluorescence [9] Luminescence [10] Bioluminescence [11] Biofluorescence [9]

TopicTheories [12] Processes [13] Organisms [14] Technologies [15]

PublisherArizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia.

RightsCopyright Arizona Board of Regents Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CCBY-NC-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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Last ModifiedWednesday, July 4, 2018 - 04:40

DC Date2017-02-06

DC Date AccessionedMonday, February 6, 2017 - 21:48

DC Date AvailableMonday, February 6, 2017 - 21:48

DC Date Created2017-02-06

DC Date Created StandardMonday, February 6, 2017 - 07:00

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