The discovery of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria has revolutionized cell biological research. The ability of this protein to form a fluorescent chromophore ...

GFP had a cyclized portion in its structure, and many people thought that such a complex chromophore structure would need the help of other enzymes in the jellyfish to fold correctly. With the clone ...

So research on GFP progressed slowly ... With the cloning of new fluorescent proteins from species other than jellyfish came the discovery of a red fluorescent protein — the holy grail of ...

Osamu Shimomura discovered GFP in the jellyfish __Aequorea victoria__ in 1962 while working at Princeton University, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University first expressed the protein in __E. coli__ ...

The gene coding for GFP comes from the bioluminescent jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, and resides on a DNA plasmid called pGLO. The pGLO plasmid also contains a gene encoding for beta-lactamase.