Stefan Wieland (swieland at sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de) wrote:
> We are looking for the shortest,but still functional GFP protein.
> Does someone know, whether one can truncate GFP without loosing activity?
Not much. Check out
@article{cubitt:95,
author = {Andrew B. Cubitt and Roger Heim and Stephen R. Adams
and Aileen E. Boyd and Larry A. Gross and Roger Y. Tsien},
title = {Understanding, improving and using green fluorescent
proteins.},
journal = TIBS,
volume = 20,
pages = {448--455},
year = 1995
}
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