...lactose released activates expression of GFP from the lac operon. GFP expression can then be used to determine... make enzymes controllable by tethering them to Dronpa, a fluorescent protein known to oligomerize when...To do so, she generated fusion proteins in which Dronpa domains flanked either side of an enzyme’s active...ultraviolet light exposure caused oligomerization of the Dronpa domains thereby occluding the enzyme active site...the enzyme. Later exposure to cyan light stopped Dronpa oligomerization and turned the enzymes back on....optimized these first generation FLiPs by mutating Dronpa to lower its aggregation tendency, increase its...iterations of FLiPs only used N- and C-terminal dronpa fusions. With these various designs, Xin has been...

...reported was PA-GFP. PA-GFP was derived from Jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) GFP (wtGFP) by mutating Threonine...mutation in PA-GFP generates a chromophore population that is more neutral, causing PA-GFP to display almost...both activates and inactivates Dronpa is not ideal, since this means Dronpa is quickly inactivated and less...example, by engineering PA-GFP tagged to a mitochondrial matrix protein (mito-PAGFP) the Youle Lab was able...the neutral to the anionic form, which allows PA-GFP to exhibit up to a 100-fold increase in fluorescence...when illuminated with blue light (1). Similar to PA-GFP, scientists later developed red fluorescent PA-FPs...in vivo imaging models perfer the PA-RFPs over PA-GFP. Another class of irreversible PA-FPs are the photoconvertible...

...cyan light, Dronpa dimers dissociate, Dronpa goes dark, and MEK1 is active or “on.” Dronpa’s color thus... the Dronpa dimers interact and lock MEK1 in an “off” setting by blocking the active site. Dronpa also...Additionally, dimeric Dronpa is less prone to aggregation in cells compared to the tetrameric Dronpa it was derived...activity by attaching two dimerizing photoswitchable Dronpa (dron= a ninja term for vanishing, and pa= photoactivation...similarity. For these three kinases, photoswitchable Dronpa domains were inserted at sites homologous to the...Expression with Cre-lox Control Protein Activity with GFP Resources at Addgene.org Find KTR reporter plasmids...here. In addition, it could be possible to use pdDronpa to control other kinases and proteins. Zhou et...

...plasmids described in this work including the soCoChR-GFP plasmid as well as several derivatives encoding alternative...interactions with photoactivatable fluorescent protein Dronpa. The authors tracked protein kinase A (PKA) activity...living cells using a construct in which TagRFP-T and Dronpa flanked a PKA substrate fused to the phosphopeptide...a conformational change that placesTagRFP-T and Dronpa in close proximity. By monitoring changes in TagRFP-T...ShadowG, a novel dark green fluorescent protein (GFP) with an absorption peak of 486 nm and ShadowY, a...

...Investigator Plasmids GFP GFP-dependent transcription factors Connie Cepko See Plasmids Dronpa Optical control...Optogenetics Background Fluorescent proteins such as GFP have long been used for labeling, but new methods...regulate a variety of other activities. By using GFP as a scaffold, scientists can design de novo systems...modular components or take advantage of existing GFP-lines for cell-specific manipulation. Plasmids Fluorescent...

... 470 Fluorescent Protein domains Dronpa based Light-inducible Dronpa mutant domains that associate and... the applications described above, both LOV and Dronpa can control activity of a fused protein through...plasmids allow cloning of protein coding sequences with GFP-LOVpep, cpPDZ, ePDZb and ePDZb1 as tags. pDawn/pDusk...

...Expression pRSETA-PAGFP - Bacterial Expression tandem PA-GFP-KanR - Yeast Expression pFA6a-PA-GFP-kanMX6 - Yeast...Expression pFA6a-link-yEPAGFP-CaUra3 - Yeast Expression mPA-GFP-N1 - Mammalian Expression mPA-GFP-C1 - Mammalian...then scientists have engineered numerous GFP-variants and non-GFP proteins that result in a diverse set ...tagging with mCherry, mOrange, mCerulean pET GFP - C-terminal GFP for bacterial expression Davidson Lab Plasmids...Expression EGFP 488 507 34 6 Prone to dimerization pcDNA3-EGFP - Mammalian Expression pCAG-GFP - Mammalian...Mammalian Expression PA-GFP 504 517 14 Monomer (A206K) pPAGFP-N1 - Mammalian Expression pPAGFP-C1 - Mammalian ...with mCherry, Cerulean, Citrine, and eGFP pPD95_75 - C-terminal GFP for C. elegans expression pHT101-mCherry...

... PINK1 N-GFP PINK1 GFP CMV Parkinson's Mark Cookson 13316 pcDNA-DEST47 PINK1 C-GFP PINK1 GFP CMV Parkinson's...21190 GFP-pcDNA3-PKCgamma-cys1Acys1B PRKCG GFP CMV Spinocerebellar ataxia 27 Tobias Meyer 21204 GFP-N2-PKCgamma...PKCgamma PRKCG GFP CMV Spinocerebellar ataxia 26 Tobias Meyer 21205 GFP-C1-PKCgamma-C1A PRKCG GFP CMV Spinocerebellar...Davidson 57146 mPA-GFP-MAPTau-N-10 MAPT GFP CMV Parkinson's, FTD Michael Davidson 57286 Dronpa-MAPTau-N-10 MAPT...-HtrA2-EGFP HTRA2 GFP CMV Parkinson's L. Miguel Martins 14122 pcDNA3-HtrA2-EGFP S306A HTRA2 GFP CMV Parkinson's... GPD 25QDProGFP p416 HTT GFP GPD Huntington's Susan Lindquist 15569 GPD 104QDProGFP p416 HTT GFP GPD Huntington's...GAL 25Q+ProGFPp416 HTT GFP GAL1 Huntington's Susan Lindquist 15581 GAL 46Q+ProGFPp416 HTT GFP GAL1 Huntington's...