Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
...These molecules occur naturally in bioluminescent organisms, but their real power lies in the clever ways ...Although humans have known about bioluminescent organisms and their characteristic radiance for some time...to isolate two proteins from the jellyfish’s photoorgans; the first, which he called aequorin, gives off...collaborator Martin Chalfie expressed GFP in exogenous organisms (E. coli, and later C. elegans) for the first ...be responsible and began studying these marine organisms to find the culprits. He even obtained samples...