Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
..., followed by an intramolecular reaction that generates the chromophore (Tsien, 1998). Importantly, this...absorb light at 488 nm. The ratio between the two states is reflected by the pKa, which is around 6.0 for...relatively small, adding GFP may alter diffusion rates.
Smaller genetically encoded probes are based on...Adjobo-Hermans, 2011). Structural information facilitates the choice of the proper site, although it still...