Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...you’ll probably find lots of different plasmids containing the same protein of interest tagged with different...provide many advantages over fluorescent proteins, opening up new applications.
Figure 1: Live-cell...covalently linked to derivatives of its substrate O6-benzylguanine (BG) (Keppler et al., 2003). This engineered...FlAsH, ReAsH)
Few
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SNAP-tag
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Benzylguanine (BG)
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eDHFR
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Trimpethoprim...Bottanelli et al., 2016) under CC-BY license.
Combining orthogonal self-labeling tags on different proteins...able to get a plasmid ready-to-use without any cloning at all! As mentioned above, several variants of...collection to find self-labeling fusion proteins or cloning backbones to study your gene of interest with these...