Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
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...successfully generated several functional heterotrimeric G-alpha subunit fusions that do not tolerate N- and...proper site, although it still is worthwhile to generate several variants and check the functionality of the...widely used genetically encoded fluorescent probe. Several factors contribute to the popularity of GFP including...fluorescence microscope, and finally (iv) good toleration in fusion proteins.
Since GFP is such a well-...that you may run into if you choose to use it. Several of these limitations and possible solutions are...1998). Another mutation (A206K) is necessary to generate the strictly monomeric EGFP variant, mEGFP (Zacharias..., followed by an intramolecular reaction that generates the chromophore (Tsien, 1998). Importantly, this...