Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors
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...Beyond these common applications, researchers are finding new ways to apply fluorescent proteins everyday...award opportunities.
Xin Zhou: Fluorescent Light-inducible Proteins (FLiPs)
Fluorescent proteins can be applied...these photoswitchable enzymes Fluorescent Light-inducible Proteins, or FLiPs.
Xin later optimized these...spatio-temporally controlled as a key advantage over other inducible enzyme technologies. She hopes that other researchers...create a wide variety of enzymes and proteins with inducible activity and recently presented her work at the...sfGFP fused to a His-tagged ABC transporter known to bind to the HMO of interest. Fatima specifically proposes...with bacteria engineered to produce HMOs, sensor binding results in an increase in fluorescence of cells...