01:39Production of Recombinant Wild-Type Fluorescent Proteins and Selective Pressure Incorporation to Produce Fluorescent Proteins with Proline Analogs
04:08Fluorescence Emission of Protein Variants
05:00Denaturation and Refolding of EGFP Variants
06:38Results: Effect of Atomic Substitutions in Variants of GFP
To overcome the limitations of classical site-directed mutagenesis, proline analogs with specific modifications were incorporated into several fluorescent proteins. We show how the replacement of hydrogen by fluorine or of the single by double bonds in proline residues ("molecular surgery") affects fundamental protein properties, including their folding and interaction with light.