Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
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Blog Post
Published
April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
...CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing may be the hot new way to manipulate gene expression, but other gene manipulation...manipulation systems remain valuable to biology. Cre-lox recombination, discovered in the 1980s, is one of... evolution of the Brainbow multicolor labeling system - a perfect example of the continued utility of...Cre-lox to create the Brainbow mouse neural labeling system. Brainbow-1 and -2 have been further refined to...applied to cell marking and lineage tracing in other systems, such as zebrafish and Drosophila.
Why Brainbow...synopsis of the differences amongst the Brainbow systems. Pre-Brainbow techniques, such as Golgi staining...further recombination. Brainbow-1.1 scales up the system to four fluorescent proteins, with recombination...