Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
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...interaction partners (PIPs), the FP fragments form the complete FP because the PIPs they’re tethered to ...endogenous PIPs is expressed at increasing levels alongside your BiFC constructs. If your PIPs actually ... YFP) is reunited by the interaction between two PIPs, resulting in a fluorescent readout.
Applications...aberrant subcellular localization of the studied PIPs. The straightforward nature of BiFC also makes it...protein construction
Fusing FP fragments to your PIPs requires careful selection of FP fragments and, ...some information about the structures of the tested PIPs. Many split FPs have been validated for BiFC (Kodama...Kodama and Hu, 2012). Having a rough idea of how your PIPs might interact will allow you to determine where...