Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
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... map the turnover of Langerhans cells in the dermis and identify that Langerhans cells are replenished...membrane-tethered CFP (cyan). Brainbow 1.1 adds OFP (orange) (Livet et al., 2007).
Brainbow uses a Cre/lox ...respectively, cells will fluoresce either red or orange until recombination occurs.
Following the development...incorporates the highly photostable fluorophores mOrange2, EGFP, and mKate2 (red) to solve the problematically... to develop a system for tracking the fate of Langerhans cells. In the Ubow mouse, cells expressing YFP...through the proliferation of specific, and not all, Langerhans cells, to create foci of proliferating cells...., Clément, et al. "Multicolor fate mapping of Langerhans cell homeostasis." Journal of Experimental Medicine...