This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The goal of this work is to combine directed evolution with structural analysis to engineer orange to far-red fluorescent proteins (FP's) that are bright, photostable, fast-maturing, and monomeric. We have a number of new FP's, including two engineered variants of dsRed (by the Glick lab at UC), and naturally occurring FP's discovered in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The specific goal of this proposal is to use synchrotron radiation at APS to collect high-resolution data on these (and subsequent) FP's to facilitate and validate our design efforts.
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