Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
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...-2.1 construct can express one of four colors (n-GFP, RFP, YFP or M-CFP.) The construct contains two tandem...ten colors (see table to the right); in various reports, Sanes and Lichtman have observed from 90-160 distinct...hepatitis virus post-transcriptional regulatory element (WPRE), commonly used to increase transgene protein... translation-blocking STOP cassette immediately following the promoter. The STOP cassette includes a mutant... and sequence overlap (coral mOrange2, jellyfish EGFP, and sea anemone mKate2.) They then successfully... is retained in Brainbow-3.0, but with mOrange2, EGFP and mKate2 as the fluorophores; mOrange2 is the ...