A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein
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...of posts explains how to critically assess the reported properties of fluorescent proteins, how to do ...observed in mammalian cells is to tag an endogenous gene. By imaging cells (or tissues) that produce an endogenous...fluorescent proteins or using endogenous tagged genes) can be used to verify performance under different... develops genetically encoded FRET based biosensors.
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Which... QY (EC*QY, sometimes normalized to the value of EGFP). The higher the number, the higher the theoretical...mVenus as a reference protein is available from Addgene.
Another way to dodge cellular variation observed...Amsterdam). He develops, characterizes and uses genetically encoded fluorescent probes. You can follow him...