Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
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Blog Post
...This post was contributed by guest blogger Joachim Goedart, an assistant professor at the Section of ...genetically encoded fluorescent probe. Several factors contribute to the popularity of GFP including (i) fast and... mutation (A206K) is necessary to generate the strictly monomeric EGFP variant, mEGFP (Zacharias et al... bind the molecule of interest. For instance, pleckstrin homology domains can be used to detect specific...have successfully generated several functional heterotrimeric G-alpha subunit fusions that do not tolerate...Merel JW, et al. "Real-time visualization of heterotrimeric G protein Gq activation in living cells." BMC...