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...FRET donor excitation wavelengths overlap with optogenetic initiation wavelengths, excitation of the optogenetic... to lab. Promega supports the Addgene mission statement: Accelerate research and discovery by improving...reporters produced bright signals without exogenous excitation and with OgNLuc being the brightest since it ...co-imaged with GFP using the same wavelength for excitation. The result was the cyan-excitable orange fluorescent...molecularly evolved from mNeptune2 through 33 mutations and 2 deletions. CyOFP1 has a higher quantum yield...fluorescent proteins (FPs) can be problematic because excitation light can cause phototoxicity, autofluorescence...sensor with the following characteristics: No photoexcitation High Ion specificity High sensitivity Easy ...

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...strand via mutations N497A, R661A, Q695A, and Q926A (SpCas9-HF1 contains all four mutations). Although...Additional work revealed that mutations in the mobile Rec3 domain facilitate this stall. With this new found... authors went on to combine the best of these mutations and tested the combination mutants for their on-target...mutants are not toxic to HEK cells and that similar mutations can improve the specificity of Cas9 derived from...This means you can likely apply similar rational mutations to your Cas9 homolog of choice and get improved...Although the precise mutations were different than those found in eSpCas9, the effect on specificity was similar...therapeutic settings. Will combining the different mutations found in each of these great tools further enhance...

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..., the monomeric state of a probe leads to less interference with the oligomeric state of a fusion partner....8 33 State-of-the-art NIR FPs, which combine high cellular brightness and monomeric state, are highlighted...there is a Table that summarizes the properties of state-of-the-art probes, many of which you can find at... heme metabolism (Shemetov et al, 2017). Modern state-of-the-art NIR FPs can be used similar to GFP-like... by an apoprotein and protein expression level. State-of-the-art FPs (listed in Table 1) were optimized... Molecular brightness vs. iRFP713, % Oligomeric state Photo-stabilityc, t1/2, s pKa Brightness in HeLa...that this post helps you in getting to know the state-of-the-art NIR fluorescent probes and in choosing...