Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs
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... FP fusion with a resident endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein instead localizes to the cytoplasm? Or more...absolute position requirements. For example, a KDEL ER retrieval sequence only functions at the extreme ...potential to interfere with the function of resident ER chaperones and may impact cellular function or possibly...complex-localized fusions from properly exiting the ER and fluorescing (see Figure 2) [5]. When using FPs... pathway, a dark pool that is mislocalized to the ER can be detected with immunofluorescence. This population...through the secretory pathway, and retained in the ER.
FPs have been undeniably powerful and successful...