Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags
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...a green fluorescent protein, a red fluorescent protein, a fancy new green fluorescent protein, some affinity...different proteins of interest (or one self-labeling tag and a fluorescent protein) enables applications like...new-and-improved fluorescent protein you want to try, just swap in a new fluorescent ligand and see the...provide many advantages over fluorescent proteins, opening up new applications.
Figure 1: Live-...plasmids containing the same protein of interest tagged with different fusion proteins for different experiments...tags, another version with that same red fluorescent protein somebody made because they forgot it was ...Just express the fusion protein and add a specific ligand!
A self-labeling protein gives you the flexibility...