Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
... from the default GFP (green) to RFP, CFP, or YFP fluorescence. In Brainbow 2.1, GFP is tagged with a ...Tissue-specific Cre recombination in this mouse generates cells that randomly express either nuclear GFP, membrane...incorporates the highly photostable fluorophores mOrange2, EGFP, and mKate2 (red) to solve the problematically low...and activate fluorescence of the downstream OFP, GFP, or RFP. Cells that express the construct but do ...protein genes, Cre recombination is required before fluorescence can occur. Cre recombinase can be used ...developing fish via Cre protein microinjection or crossing of Zebrabow animals to an inducible Cre line. The Schier...OFP (orange) (Livet et al., 2007).
Brainbow uses a Cre/lox system to label neurons. Genes encoding the fluorescent...