Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options
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Blog Post
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May 11, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
...proteins can interfere with fused protein function
Under some circumstances, the fused fluorescent proteins ...immunohistochemistry methods, these proteins are routinely fused to ‘tag’ or ‘label’ proteins to facilitate its detection...could affect the properties or trafficking of the fusion protein (Kimple et al., 2013).
We found that the...initially used a construct in which the hM4Di was fused to mCherry. To investigate the localization of the...neurons, we next hypothesized that a different tag fused to the hM4Di might improve the transport of this...the influenza virus, introduced to the field of fusion proteins more than thirty years ago (Field et al...also found that this is not generalizable to all fusion proteins. For example, we saw that another type...