Organisms Aequorea victoria

ABSTRACT A number of fluorescent proteins have been discovered in marine organisms with the green-fluorescent protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria representing the first member of this family being isolated and well characterized. These polypeptides show marked differences in their spectral properties. Today, blue-, yellow-, cyan- and red-light emitting proteins are known in addition to GFP. 

With green fluorescent proteins becoming available from other organisms scientists started to add the initial letters of the latin names of the organisms as a prefix to the name of the gene. However, this system is not used consequently. Hence, in the literature the wildtype - GFP is also known as AvGFP, but even nowadays in the majority of publications only the term GFP is used for the GFP 1-gene form Aequorea victoria. 

Natural lluorescsnca and phosphorescencs is common in many aquatic organisms. The green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a species of jellyfish. Aequorea Victoria, is novv widelv used in molecular biology. Its intrinsic fluorescence arises from a specific covaleni rearrangement of a Ser-Tyr-Gly sequence within ils structure... 

Green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) are found in a variety of bioluminescent organisms such as the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and the anemone Disco-soma. While most of other proteins require a cofactor to fluoresce, GFPs exhibit intrinsic fluorescence thanks to three amino acids that cyclize... 

Until recently, the green fluorescent protein (avGFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria was the only fluorescent protein to be widely mutated and altered for biological apphcations. Meanwhile, a family of GFP-like proteins from different organisms has emerged that share the common fl-barrel fold structure and intrinsic chromophores but represent a vast spectral range, with (E)GFP and DsRed being the most prominent representatives [33]. 

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