Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel
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...While proteins themselves can emit intrinsic fluorescence when excited with ultraviolet (UV) light, they... of labeling proteins is to fuse them with a fluorescent reporter, such as GFP or mCherry, through genetic...its presence through detecting the reporter's fluorescence. Another way to label proteins is through treating...cells. The combination of antibody-fluorophores, fluorescent reporters, and/or dye stains used in your flow...to APC. This happens due to a process called Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET).
Figure...brightness of individual fluorophores. Table 1 describes the brightness of a few commonly used fluorophores...
As I mentioned previously, you can also use fluorescent reporters, such as GFP, and fluorophore-conjugated...