Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags
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...fusion protein that switches to any color or tag you want?
It sounds like magic, but it’s real! In this post...photophysical properties of chemical dyes provide many advantages over fluorescent proteins, opening up new applications...HaloTag is actually HaloTag7, and recent specialized variants run up to HaloTag11. HaloTag is now the most popular...for every new-and-improved fluorescent protein you want to try, just swap in a new fluorescent ligand and...decorate synthetic viral particles with BG-linked antibodies to drive cell type-specific delivery of a viral...any cloning at all! As mentioned above, several variants of these tags have been developed over the years...are typically 230–250 aa. Smaller size isn’t a guarantee that a tag won’t disrupt the function of the target...