Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins
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...yet powerful way to tag cellular proteins and investigate protein localization, interaction, and expression...reversible photoactivation - and have enabled sophisticated imaging techniques.
Irreversible photoactivation...victoria) GFP (wtGFP) by mutating Threonine 203 to Histidine (T203H) (1). wtGFP normally contains a mixed population...can occur multiple times by activating with two distinct wavelengths of light (see Table 2).
The best known...usually preferred for studying single protein characteristics, as the monomeric state is less likely to interfere...super-resolution imaging usually have the following characteristics-high contrast ratios, bright fluorescence, ...conventional FPs for super-resolution imaging, they still do not emit the large number of photons achievable...