Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
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...of a transgene construct containing fluorescent proteins (XFP) of different colors to label an organ or... a combination of XFP are expressed. Each cell remains the same color for its entire lifetime and daughter... label neurons. Genes encoding the fluorescent proteins are organized in tandem with a single promoter..., stability, and brightness of the fluorescent proteins used in the system.
One such system is Brainbow... because by default, they are not fluorescent. Instead, they incorporate a truncated, non-fluorescent ...a unique combination of all of the fluorescent proteins from the injected construct. The fluorescent protein... protein expressed in a single cell maintains its color over the entire length of the cell, even axons...