Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies
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...how a protein of interest actually behaves. How large is it? What parts of it move when you feed it substrate...does it have and how do they come off and on in a cellular environment? If these are pressing issues in your... proteins, lipid bilayers, organelles or other cellular impediments.
FRET has been used in many applications...LanthaScreen) (Degorce et al., 2009), measuring intracellular calcium (Miyawaki, Griesbeck, Heim, & Tsien,...excellent primer on FRET and how to measure it).
Molecular mailbox: How to get your fluorophore delivered...(a single mailbox at a specific house in your molecular city). However, the acceptor doesn’t need to go.... If the acceptor fluorophore is getting to a molecular mailbox that is close to the donor, faulty delivery...