When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
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...some simple solutions available for researchers to deal with all of these problems. The simplest and best...Stop using EGFP/GFP for fusion proteins! Despite multiple studies in high profile journal articles, many...forming dimers in cells. Why should you care? Three simple ways a dimeric FP could ruin your day (and experiment...cell. The Kd of EGFP is 0.11 mM [2]. Following the simple logic outlined above, you might think EGFP is unlikely... a cell. Unfortunately, things are not quite so simple.
Concentration is the number of molecules within...around that fusion protein is very high. Real world examples of these situations in cells are described below...order oligomers. Unfortunately, FP dimerization coupled with POI dimerization can lead to polymerization...