When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
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... non-physiological, and difficult to ignore [1, 2].
2. Fusion to an obligate dimer or oligomer
Several...Biol, 2003. 163(2): p. 257-69. PubMed PMID: 14581454. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2173526.
2. Zacharias, D.... nature are prone to dimerization (i.e. EGFP) [1, 2] or even form obligate tetramers (i.e. DsRed) [3]....form dimers in a cell. The Kd of EGFP is 0.11 mM [2]. Following the simple logic outlined above, you might...organized smooth endoplasmic reticulum (OSER) whorls. 2)A dimerizing protein of interest fused to a dimerizing... designed to detect resulting in false positives [2, 4].
Solutions to the polymer problem
There are some...Citrine) can be monomerized with an A206K mutation [2]. Addgene has many of these constructs and they are...