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Exploiting the cyanobacterial light-harvesting machinery for developing fluorescent probes

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Researchers develop a new class of near-infrared fluorescent proteins from a light-harvesting phycobiliprotein.

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Figure 1: Schematic depiction of bilin-based fluorescent proteins.

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  1. Atsushi Miyawaki is at the Laboratory for Cell Function Dynamics, Brain Science Institute, and Biotechnological Optics Research Team, Center for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako-city, Saitama, Japan.,

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Miyawaki, A. Exploiting the cyanobacterial light-harvesting machinery for developing fluorescent probes. Nat Methods 13, 729–730 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3983

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