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The dynamic microbe: green fluorescent protein brings bacteria to light

Abstract

The demonstration that the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria required no jellyfish-specific cofactors and could be expressed as a fluorescent protein in heterologous hosts including both prokaryotes and eukaryotes sparked the development of GFP as one of the most common reporters in use today. Over the past several years, the utility of GFP as a reporter has been optimized through the isolation and engineering …

Authors

Southward CM; Surette MG

Journal

Molecular Microbiology, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1191–1196

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

September 2002

DOI

10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03089.x

ISSN

0950-382X