Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion
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Blog Post
... are you’ve used a GFP derivative to conduct subcellular localization studies or make a reporter construct...shown to work in plant, Drosophila and mammalian cells, and it may find wide use in biological research...turnover rate. In many cases, however, a GFP-tagged cell line or organism has already been made, and it would...made by accident. After exciting GFP-labeled plant cells at 405 nm instead of 488 nm, Sattarzadeh et al. ...spontaneous conversion did not occur.
Tobacco suspension cell culture with cytosol-targeted GFP. White circles...this technique may not be appropriate for high-pH cellular compartments.
Sattarzadeh et al. have shown that...photoconverted in plant, Drosophila, and mammalian cells. Photoconverted GFP is compatible with other FPs...