Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
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...protein genes, Cre recombination is required before fluorescence can occur. Cre recombinase can be used alongside...only expressed following a recombination event. Tissue-specific Cre recombination in this mouse generates...may acquire one of a variety of colors when a combination of XFP are expressed. Each cell remains the same...with Brainbow
The Lichtman group developed the original iteration of this technology in 2007. Used to ...cells will fluoresce either red or orange until recombination occurs.
Following the development of Brainbow...the default state of the transgene such that recombination is necessary to excise the non-fluorescent YFP...that express the construct but do not undergo recombination can be detected by immunostaining of the truncated...