Mutant Aequorea victoria fluorescent proteins having increased c

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1996-05-08

2000-02-22

Achutamurthy, Ponnathapu

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology

Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...

Involving nucleic acid

435 691, 435 697, 4352523, 4353201, 536 234, 536 235, 530350, C12Q 168, C12N 120, C07K 100, C07H 2104

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to mutants of the jellyfish Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP) having at least 5 and preferably greater than 20 times the specific green fluorescence of the wild type protein. In other embodiments, the invention comprises mutant blue fluorescent proteins (BFPs) that emit an enhanced blue fluorescence. The invention also encompasses the expression of nucleic acids that encode a mutant GFP or BFP in a wide variety of engineered host cells, and the isolation of engineered proteins having increased fluorescent activity. The novel mutants of the present invention allow for a significantly more sensitive detection of fluorescence in engineered host cells than is possible with GFP or with its known mutants. Thus, the mutant fluorescent proteins provided herein can be used as sensitive reporter molecules to detect the cell and tissue-specific expression and subcellular compartmentalization of GFP or BFP mutants, or of chimeric proteins comprising GFP or BFP mutants fused to a regulatory sequence or to a second protein sequence.

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