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US 7,547,528 B2Granted
Fluorescent protein and chromoprotein
AssigneesRiken, Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd.
InventorsAtsushi Miyawaki, Ryoko Ando, Satoshi Karasawa, Hideaki Mizuno
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Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel chromoprotein and a novel fluorescent protein. The present invention provides chromoproteins derived from Anthopleura inornata, which have certain property, and fluorescent proteins from Trachyphyllia geoffroyi and Scolymia vitiensis, which have certain fluorescent property.
Claims9
An isolated DNA of either one of following:
- (a) DNA encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 1;
- and
- (b) DNA encoding a protein which has an amino acid sequence comprising a deletion, substitution and/or addition of one to twenty amino acids with respect to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 1, and has light-absorbing properties.
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An isolated DNA having the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 2.
A light-absorbing reagent kit comprising:
- (1) an isolated DNA comprising one of the following:
- (a) DNA encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 1;
- (b) DNA encoding a protein which has an amino acid sequence comprising a deletion, substitution and/or addition of one to twenty amino acids with respect to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 1, and has light-absorbing properties;
- (2) a recombinant vector having any of the DNA of 1(a) and 1(b) or
- (3) a transformant having any of the DNA of 1(a) and 1(b).
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