He actually recognized and, of course, many people recognized that this jellyfish was fluorescent, and he isolated the actual protein, and determined and proved that this protein was sufficient to cause this fluorescence.

他认识到了，当然，很多人都认识到了水母是有萤光的，它分离出了这种蛋白质，测定了它并证明,这种蛋白质会导致萤光。

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For some of you that haven't I'll just say that it's a protein, it's 238 amino acids, which means that it's about 1,000, actually more than 1,000 atoms in size, and this protein is fluorescent.

对于那些没听说过的人,我要说它是一种蛋白质，它有238个氨基酸，也就意味着它有约1000个，实际上是超过1000个原子，这种蛋白质是有萤光的。

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And what he could show was that it could be expressed, this is a picture from his 1994 science paper, in that e coli, and it is going to fluoresce green.

他证明了它可以被表达，这是1994年science文章里的一张图，在这大肠杆菌里，它有绿色的萤光。

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