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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...fusion with GFP allows for detection of genomic locations (Chen et al., 2013). GFP fluorescence overlaps...Introduction to GFP Read our Fluorescent Proteins Blog Posts Download the Fluorescent Proteins 101 eBook...S65T) in the original jellyfish GFP (AvGFP) to create enhanced GFP (EGFP), a variant with improved brightness... There are numerous GFP variants. Here I use the name ‘GFP’, which refers to mEGFP. This variant was made...consequence GFP remains non-fluorescent under anaerobic conditions. This holds true for any of the AvGFP and ...of Amsterdam). GFP is the most popular, most widely used genetically encoded fluorescent probe. Several...popularity of GFP including (i) fast and complete maturation to functional, fluorescent protein in almost...
  2. When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells

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    ...you're using green fluorescent protein or Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP/EGFP) for a transcriptional...dimerize. That means that your POI fused to GFP or another fluorescent protein (FP) could be forming dimers ...remain unaware that EGFP/GFP is prone to forming noncovalent dimers. This property of EGFP can lead to significant...contributed by guest blogger Erik L. Snapp. Stop using EGFP/GFP for fusion proteins! Despite multiple studies ...in the world, is not inert. In all seriousness, EGFP/GFP has a real nontrivial propensity to noncovalently...best solution is to use truly monomeric FPs. EGFP and other GFP family members (superfolder, Emerald, CFP...designated mEGFP, mVenus, etc. A word of caution is needed because FPs not derived from GFP, i.e. the ...
  3. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    ...similar strategy: a GFP variant bound to a DA receptor, such that the GFP fluoresces upon DA-receptor binding...sensor is a single fluorescent protein-based sensor. This sensor was engineered from a GFP variant and a DA... DA receptor such that GFP fluoresces when the receptor is bound by DA. Two variants of the sensor, dLight1.1...this, researchers from some labs have developed fluorescent-protein based DA sensors (Figure 2). The dLight1...affinity and high-magnitude responses (increases in fluorescence) at low concentrations (e.g., 100 nm) of DA....behaving mice to gather the following types of data: Report time-course and concentration of released DA in...optogenetically activated and inhibited neurons in live mice Report modulation of DA signaling during learning and ...
  4. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    ...turn up the brightness in your fluorescent imaging experiments. Fluorescent protein fusions One of the easiest...-molecule reporter of intracellular processes. Initially, Tanenbaum et al. observed some GFP aggregation...scaffold fully occupied with GFP has a molecular weight of 1,400 kDa vs 24 kDa for GFP alone. Although traditional...Blog Sign Up to Receive the Fluorescent Protein eBook Avoid Fluorescent Protein Oligomerization Learn...Resources on Addgene.org Find Fluorescent Protein Empy Backbones Visit Our Fluorescent Protein Guide Page Find...aggregation, which they reduced by using superfolder GFP (sfGFP) with the small solubility tag GB1. In SunTag...nomenclature throughout the rest of this blog post, GFP refers to sfGFP-GB1.   Tanenbaum et al. examined the power...
  5. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    ...process worked well with the common GFP variants EGFP, mGFP4-T, and S65T GFP, and no red color was observed...you’ve used a GFP derivative to conduct subcellular localization studies or make a reporter construct. Fluorescent...exciting GFP-labeled plant cells at 405 nm instead of 488 nm, Sattarzadeh et al. noticed that GFP had turned...cytosol-targeted GFP. White circles represent the irradiated area. Photoconverted GFP spreads through ...Applications and limitations of GFP photoconversion One concern with photoconverting GFP is the expression level...intensity increases with GFP concentration and saturates around 30 uM. For low-abundance GFP fusions, a photoconversion...repurpose GFP is great news for microscopy enthusiasts! Addgene has empty backbones containing GFP variants...
  6. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...Chang-Deng Hu Green sfGFP Split super-folder GFP, our most-requested GFP(1–10) and GFP(11) Versatile protein...assemble the full structure of the fluorescent protein, producing fluorescent signal. Image modified from Feng...) for use with GFP(11) Multiplexed labeling of cellular proteins with split fluorescent protein tags. ...Identification of new fluorescent protein fragments for bimolecular fluorescence complementation analysis...superpositive GFP Split-superpositive GFP reassembly is a fast, efficient, and robust method for detecting protein-protein...
  7. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...customized fluorescent reporters can be challenging enough, but incorporating multiple reporters into a single... issues with fluorescent pH sensors, a set of luciferase-fluorophore pH fusion reporters, pRSETb-pHlash... three components: a GFP protein that binds to the coding region of a reporter mRNA via a PP7 coat protein...protein (NLS-PCP-GFP) a RFP protein that binds to the 3’ UTR of the reporter mRNA via an MS2 coat protein...NLS-MS2-RFP) the reporter mRNA, which contains the tethering sites for the fluorescent proteins and an ...64543or 64542) When the reporter mRNA is first transcribed, it is bound by both the GFP and the RFP proteins...their reporter mRNAs. Using the TRICK plasmids, Halstead et al demonstrated that 91% of reporter mRNAs...
  8. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ...tandem fluorescent proteins: a relatively pH-insensitive RFP variant, DsRed.T3 and a pH-sensitive GFP variant... is the permanent fluorescent tag portion of Rosella: it will emit red fluorescence regardless of its ...the fluorescent properties of Rosella.   Table 2: Effect of Localization on Rosella’s fluorescence emission...green fluorescence accumulates in the vacuole. See Figure 2 for an example of what fluorescence looks ...Devenish, R. J. (2008). Rosella: A fluorescent pH-biosensor for reporting vacuolar turnover of cytosol and...mammalian cells using a single fluorescent biosensor. Scientific Reports,5(1). doi:10.1038/srep12397. PubMed...Addgene Blog Beware of Fluorescent Protein Oligomerization Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion Light...
  9. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    ...and fluorescent reporters being especially popular. We’ll give you an introduction to fluorescent biosensors... of fluorescently-labeled components Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (for cells); fluorescent HPLC...detects. This change then generates a reporter signal. Reporter signals may be electrochemical or light-based...Picking your reporter Don’t forget about the other end of the biosensor: which fluorescent protein is most...calcium and zinc. Some biosensors contain a single fluorescent protein fused to a domain that senses the concentration...biosensors as an example. Many calcium biosensors include GFP fused to calmodulin (CaM) and the chicken myosin ...When calcium is absent, the construct does not fluoresce; when present, calcium induces CaM/RS20 interaction...
  10. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...dim GFPs The availability of the three dimensional structure of GFP, its brighter mutant S65T-GFP, and...induction of both DsRed fluorescence and GFP shRNA. Mice carrying the R26DsRedR; CRUSH-GFP; and Nestin-Cre alleles...scientists to engineer a wide variety of GFPs with diversity in fluorescence brightness, intensity, excitation...gene editing. Dr. Masahito Ikawa has created a GFP reporter plasmid for scientists to validate the efficacy...functional complementation between two non-fluorescent split GFP fragments. When the two fragments, expressed...proximity in the synaptic cleft, functional fluorescent GFP is reconstituted in vivo. Currently available...identified a family of GFP proteins in the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae, named bfloGFPs. They went on...
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