Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
...incorporating a Tet-Off system to boost XFP expression. The increased brightness of Tetbow allows this system... proliferating cells.
Tetbow optimizes Brainbow for current technologies
Tetbow (Sakaguchi et al., 2018...fluorophores RFP (red), YFP (yellow), and membrane-tethered CFP (cyan). Brainbow 1.1 adds OFP (orange) (Livet...Flp recombinase. The XFPs in Flybow are membrane-tethered, making this system useful for visualization of...discriminating neurons within only one field of view. Tetbow can be introduced in vivo either by electroporation...vectors.
The Imai lab also developed a version of Tetbow that incorporates chemical tags instead of XFP ...this blog post from the researchers who developed Tetbow.
Conclusion
Stochastic multicolor cell labeling...