Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
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...of Brainbow, Brainbow 3.0 (Cai et al., 2013), incorporates the highly photostable fluorophores mOrange2...default, they are not fluorescent. Instead, they incorporate a truncated, non-fluorescent form of YFP as the... the Confetti mouse (Snippert et al., 2010), a reporter mouse that can be used to track any cell type ...XFP expression in the Ubow mouse
Another murine reporter animal, the Ubow mouse (Ghigo et al., 2013), was...overcame the low expression of XFP of Brainbow by incorporating a Tet-Off system to boost XFP expression. The...Tetbow can be introduced in vivo either by electroporation of plasmids, or using AAV vectors.
The Imai... lab also developed a version of Tetbow that incorporates chemical tags instead of XFP to optimize it ...