Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
...engineering efforts have increased the brightness of these genetically encoded light emitters (i.e. Takai...the most popular, most widely used genetically encoded fluorescent probe. Several factors contribute to... the first choice when selecting a genetically encoded fluorescent tag. There are, however, a number of...may alter diffusion rates.
Smaller genetically encoded probes are based on cofactor binding proteins as...Both systems are a hybrid between a genetically encoded tag and exogenously added components. For a review...date, small probes that are entirely genetically encoded do not exist, but the development of non-natural...are made by connecting its DNA code to the cDNA encoding for another protein. Effectively, it equips the...