When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
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...noncovalent dimers. This property of EGFP can lead to significant artifacts.
If you're using green fluorescent ..., and behavior of a POI. As an investigator, you want a fusion tag to be inert, to not produce artifacts...making FPs monomeric, yet many investigators remain ignorant of FP dimerization. Equally problematic, several...its molecular affinity, termed the dissociation constant or Kd, and its concentration. The smaller the ...volume. In many biological research situations, the relevant volume is that of the cell. For the physical behaviors... Fusion of an FP to a transmembrane protein significantly increases the effective concentration of the...biosensors were made with CFP and YFP, cyan and yellow variants of EGFP equally capable of dimerizing as EGFP....