Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection
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...qualitative. The Organized Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (OSER) assay (Costantini et al., 2012) measures...homodimerization of FPs targeted to the endoplasmid reticulum based on the appearance of OSER whorls. This assay...considered a linker (figure 1). In fact, for several FRET biosensors (yellow cameleon 3.60, EPAC, and Galphai...fluorescent protein can be truncated to increase the FRET efficiency.
Creating fusions at the N- and C- termini...technology and should always be considered when interpreting results.
The recent revolution in genome editing...Klarenbeek, Jeffrey, et al. "Fourth-generation epac-based FRET sensors for cAMP feature exceptional brightness,...PubMed PMID: 30886412.
Mastop, Marieke, et al. "A FRET-based biosensor for measuring Gα13 activation in...