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SHIMOMURA, Osamu (1928 – 2018)

SHIMOMURA, Osamu (1928 – 2018)

1928 – 2018

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1962 CE

#13562

Extraction, purification and properties of Aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the luminous hydromedusan, Aequorea.

Shimomura reported the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in a single footnote in this paper that was otherwise devoted to an entirely different bioluminescent protein: photoprotein aequorin. This may be the…