Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins
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...mechanobiology: seeing is believing." Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 10 (2008): 1-38. PubMed PMID:18647110.
Additional...spectral properties upon exposure to a specific wavelength of light. PA-FPs can be activated from low fluorescent...brighter fluorescent state by exposure to a specific wavelength of light. The switch or photoconversion usually...multiple times by activating with two distinct wavelengths of light (see Table 2).
The best known reversible...photoactivation) (6). Dronpa is photoactivated by blue wavelengths of light, causing emission of green fluorescence...another group of reversible PA-FPs. These were engineered to be the first reversible, monomeric red fluorescent...dynamics (fission, fusion, etc). For example, by engineering PA-GFP tagged to a mitochondrial matrix protein...