We narrowed to 130 results for: Green Fluorescent Protein
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TypeBlog Post...oligonucleotides in fluorescent visualization techniques for decades, most notably for fluorescent in situ hybridization...applications including aptamer based fluorescent biosensors. Aptabeacons Fluorescence resonance energy transfer ...aptamers fluoresce until they bind to the appropriate ligand, but relying on a lack of fluorescence for readout...applications. Learn About Fluorescent Biosensors Light-up aptamers (or, fluorescing with veggies) Though the...oligonucleotides over proteins is their modularity, which is lost as soon as the aptamer is bound to a protein fluor....that bound the compound malachite green (MG) to create a non-protein based visualization technique. Ultimately... be used to induce fluorescence outside the context of a paired fluorophore protein. Years later, Samie...
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Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
TypeBlog Post... Cre-lox Resource Guide Fluorescent Protein Resource Guide Fluorescent Protein Blog Posts ...Other proteins may also be utliized as scaffolds, including the set of red fluorescent proteins. The T-DOGGs... similarly to GFP, but commonly used red fluorescent proteins dsRed, mCherry, and TdTomato do not induce...and derivatives GFP and YFP, but not red fluorescent proteins, as seen with T-DDOGs. Like T-DDOGs, Cre-DOG...system is likely applicable to many types of proteins. For proteins with a modular structure, constructing ...., et al. “A nanobody-based system using fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell-specific gene manipulation...Caussinus, E., Kanca, O., and Affolter, M. “Fluorescent fusion protein knockout mediated by anti-GFP nanobody... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection
TypeBlog Post...applications of fluorescent proteins. These fusion proteins enable the observation of proteins in living cells...oligomerization of fluorescent proteins is a concern. The propensity of fluorescent proteins to oligomerize...Inserting a fluorescent protein within your protein of interest We have encountered several proteins for which...Addgene blog Read our fluorescent proteins blog posts Download the fluorescent proteins 101 eBook Read our... Browse the fluorescent protein collection Find empty backbones for fluorescent protein fusions Browse...University of Amsterdam). Tagging a protein of interest with a fluorescent protein to study its function is one...fusion proteins and highlight some aspects of their design. Protein size and shape matters The green fluorescent... -
Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments
TypeBlog Post...fluorophores to proteins, pioneers of this technique were able to directly detect protein/protein interactions...Day RN, Davidson MW. Fluorescent proteins for FRET microscopy: monitoring protein interactions in living... CFP-YFP was the first to be used to study protein-protein interactions and several other pairs have been... can be used to create your choice of fluorescent fusion protein with your gene of interest: Plasmid... filters chosen for the donor fluorescence and the acceptor fluorescence. Additionally, this method could... the fluorescence decay time of the donor. When FRET occurs between the pairs, donor fluorescence is quenched...Articles About FRET: Piston DW, Kremers GJ. Fluorescent protein FRET: the good, the bad and the ugly. Trends... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021
TypeBlog Post...mCherry fluorescent protein followed by a stop codon and the coding sequence for a green fluorescent protein...of cell-free system, capable of producing fluorescent proteins and enzymes. Image from Moore et al., 2021...validated through monitoring the expression of fluorescent proteins and oxytetracycline enzymes. Next, this ...biochemical secondary energy sources to increase protein yields from 36 μg/mL to 266 μg/mL. The reaction...libraries: Cas13X and Cas13Y, two compact Cas13 proteins found in the metagenome datasets from hypersaline...messenger-RBP sgRNA Library targets human mRNA binding proteins with 10 guide RNAs per gene. The lab modified ... -
MXS Chaining
TypeBlog Post...Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein Resources on Addgene.org Browse our Fluorescent Protein Collection...combination of multiple fluorescent protein sequences to develop diverse fluorescent reporters is a useful... sensors. Given the expanding palette of fluorescent proteins and the availability of powerful imaging...been used to produce complex fluorescent reporter constructs. These fluorescent reporters can be used to ... The modules used in this method include fluorescent proteins, promoters, enhancers, polyadenylation signals...constructs were created, each containing a unique fluorescent protein with minimal spectral overlap between them...Table 1). In each construct, 3 copies of the fluorescent protein were fused in-frame to a tethering partner... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog Post... awards to early career scientists using fluorescent proteins in their research. These awards help early... in the development and dissemination of fluorescent protein tools. This year, we’ve made some changes...inhibits the neuron (via hM4D). She fused fluorescent protein tags to the receptors to monitor their localization...are co-expressed with a photoconvertible fluorescent protein mEOS4a. Cells containing a sensor that shows...-generation intensiometric glutamate sensing fluorescent reporter (iGluSnFR3) to study glutamate, a signaling...disease,” says Aggarwal. This biosensor changes fluorescence based on the release of glutamate from neurons...thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides modulate protein activity and have important roles during oxidative... -
Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog Post...the folded protein (green region). Methanol dehydrates the protein, which can disrupt protein structure...treatment for immunofluorescence suppresses localization of some integral membrane proteins. Journal of ... (as the name suggests) cross-linking cellular proteins. Cross-linking is a chemical reaction that covalently... polymerize and lose its ability to cross-link proteins. As such, you will get the best results if you...solvents can be quite harsh - lipids and soluble proteins can be lost during fixation with these chemicals...these chemicals can also alter the structure of proteins, which could disrupt your target epitope (Fig....antibody binding. Formaldehyde cross-links the protein (red lines), which maintains structural epitopes... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021
TypeBlog Post...SL-sensitive fluorophore (circularly permuted green fluorescent protein or cpGFP) to the petunia SL enzymatic ...relies on the fluorescence ratio between the 2 fluorophores, rather than on the fluorescence intensity, ...thoughtfully designed plasmid components with Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS), allowing for .../doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.076067 Novel fluorescent enzyme biosensors provide direct, specific and... Claudia Vickers’s lab has designed novel SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating a SL-insensitive fluorophore...conformational change of the receptor which modulates the fluorescence intensity of the cpGFP without altering that... authors also showed that the receptor-based fluorescent biosensor has a high sensitivity (50 nM-500nM... -
Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog Post...al. A naturally monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for protein labeling in vivo. Nat Methods 12, 763... Medicine. Several sets of near-infrared fluorescent proteins (NIR FPs) and biosensors have been created...Addgene. Biliverdin chromophore Near-infrared fluorescent proteins (NIR FPs) were derived from natural photoreceptors... about cellular events via fluorescence changes occurring due to protein synthesis, degradation, or reconstitution...Shcherbakova et al., 2018). For detection of protein-protein interactions, we recommend using NIR split ...expertise is development and applications of fluorescent proteins, genetically encoded biosensors, and optogenetic... to Increase Brightness of Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins in Mammalian Cells. Cell Chem Biol 24, 758... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog Post...of all of the fluorescent proteins from the injected construct. The fluorescent protein expressed in a...upstream of the fluorescent protein genes, Cre recombination is required before fluorescence can occur. Cre...Visit our fluorescent proteins topic page Resources on Addgene.org Browse Addgene’s fluorescent protein...introduction of a transgene construct containing fluorescent proteins (XFP) of different colors to label an organ...system to label neurons. Genes encoding the fluorescent proteins are organized in tandem with a single promoter...number, stability, and brightness of the fluorescent proteins used in the system. One such system is Brainbow...switches from the default GFP (green) to RFP, CFP, or YFP fluorescence. In Brainbow 2.1, GFP is tagged... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog Post...are now available for fluorescent reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators (GEVI...sensor and a mutated version of the pHLuorin fluorescent protein. This GEVI features increased brightness ... Examples of some genes encoding gap junction proteins cx43 GJB1 GJB2 Bioelectric states can alter ... even between many cells (through gap junction proteins which connect the cytoplasm of two cells) can ...controlled by the opening and closing of ion channel proteins, they are not always easy to track at the transcriptional... Levin lab from Tufts University has used Arch (green-light activated proton pump) and ChR2 (blue-light...anion-conducting channelrhodopsin used as a sensitive fluorescent voltage indicator with near-complete desensitization... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog Post...plasmid encodes a green fluorescent protein gene which makes the bacterium fluoresce green. Comic by Maya... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog Post...AID-tagged protein. To quantify protein degradation the Ward lab used fluorescent proteins (FPs) fused...implications for the fusion protein effectivity), and a fluorescent protein tag for visualization (Fig....catalytically inactive dCas9) to modify chromatin. A fluorescent protein can still be included for visualization purposes...attached to your protein of interest. TIR1 interacts with endogenous Skp1 and Cul3 proteins to form a SCF...inducible degron sequence) tagged proteins. Degradation of your protein interest would also result in depletion... histone-modifying enzymes and reader-effector proteins. b) Golden Gate assembly (backbones available ... create multiple synthetic chromatin-modifying proteins quickly and accurately. Priode and Haynes, ... -
Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog Post...article: Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? However, fusion proteins tag your protein of interest with...produces a greater SSC. Protein expression, measured using fluorescent protein fusions In addition to ...with a fluorescent reporter on the N- or C-terminus of the protein. One downside of fusion proteins is that...around the challenges of fluorescent protein fusions by binding to the protein in its native state. Antibodies-based...target protein composition. It is used for a variety of applications such as measuring target protein expression...such as fluorescent microscopy must be used. To learn more about the most suitable fluorescent microscopy... have a variety of fluorescent light sources. When interrogated with a fluorescent light source, a cell... -
Plasmids 101: Protein tags
TypeBlog Post...Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Fluorescent Protein...leash for your protein. If you’re working with an uncharacterized protein, or a protein for which a good... Protein tags are usually smallish peptides incorporated into a translated protein. As depicted in the...Plasmids 101 has covered GFP and its related fluorescent proteins, which are sometimes used as tags for detection...fusion protein tags. Biochemists and molecular biologists who need to overexpress and purify proteins can...tags and fusion proteins to aid in the expression and purification of recombinant proteins. Tags for stability...recombinant protein? It is not generally in a cell’s best interest to overexpress a protein. Energy and... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog Post...colleagues identified a highly bright and stable fluorescent protein, StayGold. Although it quickly saw wide interest... E., et al. (2023). A monomeric StayGold fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology, 1–4. https://doi.org... al. (2023). Bright and stable monomeric fluorescent proteins derived from StayGold. ResearchSquare (Preprint...marmosets. CAP-Mac also robustly expressed fluorescent reporters in green monkeys and cultured human neurons,...Lab addressed this problem by optimizing the Cas protein delivery with Peptide-Assisted Genome Editing (...dimerization while maintaining the bright and stable fluorescence of the original (Ivorra-Molla et al., 2023)....Whether you plan to purify or image a recombinant protein, the FLAG tag has proven itself a good option for... -
28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015
TypeBlog Post...epitopes fused to the protein of interest are recognized and thus fluorescently labeled by scFv antibodies...works by bringing together an anchor protein and activator protein to drive transcription. The anchor consists...off all mRNA binding proteins as it travels along the mRNA to produce the protein product. The system,...RNA Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off, is made up of three components: a GFP protein that binds to the ...of a reporter mRNA via a PP7 coat protein (NLS-PCP-GFP) a RFP protein that binds to the 3’ UTR of the reporter... sites for the fluorescent proteins and an inducible promoter (Plasmid 64543or 64542) When the reporter...and the RFP proteins in the nucleus. During the first round of translation, the GFP proteins that are bound... -
Bacterial Expression Systems
TypeCollection...Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins Fluorescent Protein Timers Return to top Protein Interactions Förster...Strains for Protein Expression Protein Expression Epitope Tags Protein Tags Return to top Protein Visualization... Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein–Protein Interactions Return to top Controlled Expression...that can be used for protein purification, protein visualization, study of protein interactions, controlled...Bacterial Expression Systems Protein Purification Protein Visualization Protein Interactions Controlled Expression...plasmids that contain fluorescent protein (FP) tags so you can express your protein of interest fused to... Additional Addgene Protein Visualization Resources Visit our Fluorescent Protein Guide to find an extensive... -
Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering
TypeBlog Post...blasticidin, neomycin, puromycin, hygromycin) and fluorescent protein reporters (GFP, BFP, RFP, no FP). The vectors...consists of a mirrored set of inverted repeats (green) flanking the gene of interest (blue) in a plasmid...expressed (red stars) and binds the inverted repeats (green); and an endonuclease reaction occurs which cuts...