The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
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...unstable in vivo due to poor folding and thermal instability at 37°C (Ouellet et al., 2016) and requires a...riboswitch, metabolite binding to the riboswitch instead activates Spinach fluorescence.
In the search for...identified the nucleotides that contribute to the instability of Spinach, and were able to develop an aptamer...Spinach, a miniaturized version of Spinach that retains similar levels of fluorescence when bound to DFHBI... cell imaging. Bunch of baby spinach, or BoBS, contains tandem repeats of Baby Spinach. It was developed... Aliyah Weinstein...