FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis
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Blog Post
...Apoptosis or “programmed cell death" plays a pivotal role in an array of biological processes including...development, the immune system, and cell turnover. Apoptosis is a highly controlled process that is triggered...fragmentation and death (Elmore, 2007).
To study apoptosis in vivo, scientists have used genetically encoded...fluorescent executioner caspase reporters. Several apoptosis reporters have been developed, such as the Forster...Zhang et al., 2019). Thus to effectively study apoptosis in vivo scientists need a protease reporter that...brightness.
The Shu Lab from UCSF designed an improved apoptosis reporter, ZipGFP, which utilized the self-assembling... better study the spatio-temporal dynamics of apoptosis in living animals. To do this they modified a ...