Plastic containers
- ID-nummer
- 2009.001.000
- Titel
- Plastic containers
- Publik beskrivning
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These plastic containers were used by Osamu Shimomura and his colleagues to extract luminous substances from the jellyfish Aequorea aequorea. The containers held solutions of ammonium sulphate and the acid EDTA.
From thousands of jellyfish, Shimomura and his colleagues managed to extract a few grammes of a luminescent protein, aequorin. They also succeeded in extracting small amounts of another protein that creates a pale green light. This discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) would have a great importance for research. GFP enables the study of processes inside the cells of living organisms.
Osamu Shimomura donated the plastic containers to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2009. - Pristagare
- Osamu Shimomura
- Provenance
- 540 Nobel Museum Temporary
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