Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins
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...loxP sites such that their expression is turned on or off in cells expressing Cre. The result of a system...15 years efforts have been made to create transgenic mice expressing fluorescent protein reporter constructs...allows the visualization of fluorescent proteins expressed in the specimen.
2. Fluorescence Activated Cell...immune lineage, scientists could easily track GFP expressing cells. For example, by harvesting lymph nodes...above depicts the infiltration of neutrophils expressing LysM-GFP (green) into a draining lymph node after...useful tool for marking and tracking cells is the the Cre/lox recombination system. A researcher can flank ...respectively. The permanent labelling of cells using cre-lox is advantageous when compared to photoactivable...