Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers
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...to monitor cell, organelle, and protein localization. For instance, you might dye your cells and look at...either in whole cells or as a pool of fusion proteins localized to a specific region of the cell. For example...the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular structure and a particular biological...trafficking to a subcellular location, start of gene expression, development of a cell structure, etc)....timers, researchers can look at a single image of a cell and understand how protein localization changes ...was a tetramer with a propensity to aggregate in cells (Tsuboi et al.), limiting its use. Nonetheless, ...versatile timer could be used in vitro, in mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. Of course...