Fluorescent and glowing proteins
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a jellyfish forms its own light-emitting chromophore inside a barrel of beta strands, which lets scientists tag and watch proteins in living cells. Its discovery and development won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Engineered variants and proteins from corals now cover every color, and some can be switched on and off with light.
Open Green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 3D
20 structures
- Green fluorescent protein (GFP)1EMA
- Green fluorescent protein1GFL
- Enhanced GFP (EGFP)2Y0G
- Superfolder GFP2B3P
- GFP at atomic resolution2WUR
- Blue fluorescent protein (GFP variant)1BFP
- Cerulean cyan fluorescent protein2Q57
- mTurquoise2 cyan fluorescent protein3ZTF
- Yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)1YFP
- mNeonGreen5LTR
- DsRed red fluorescent protein1G7K
- mCherry2H5Q
- Far-red fluorescent protein eqFP6704EDS
- Kaede photoconvertible protein (green form)2GW3
- Dronpa, a photoswitchable fluorescent protein2IE2
- Photoactivatable GFP (PA-GFP)3GJ1
- GFP bound to an anti-GFP nanobody3OGO
- Aequorin, the jellyfish calcium-sensing photoprotein1EJ3
- Firefly luciferase1LCI
- Aequorea victoria GFP (AlphaFold)P42212 (AlphaFold)
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