Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies
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...Miyawaki, Griesbeck, Heim, & Tsien, 1999), monitoring kinase activity (Ni, Titov, & Zhang, 2006), quantifying...tRNA suppression competes with natural chain termination at stop codons, expression levels of these tagged...acceptors, then biarsenicals are a good option. Originally developed by Roger Tsien and co-workers (Griffin...compounds such as British anti-Lewisite (which was originally developed to treat heavy metal intoxication in...insert your protein of interest, resulting in a C-terminal fusion of a tetracysteine tag. In addition, since...so don’t be afraid to try novel, unpublished combinations of labeling strategies. FRET experimental design...Roger Y. Tsien. "Specific covalent labeling of recombinant protein molecules inside live cells." Science281.5374...