Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
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Blog Post
Published
May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
...implantation and generation of transgenic mice.
Purification: GFP can be used as a general epitope tag for...biosensor or cell marker, studying protein-protein interactions, visualizing promoter activity, and much more...fluorescent activity; very little truncation is tolerated, however, point mutations are acceptable. GFP'...mutations have since been introduced to GFP and new iterations of fluorophores are constantly being engineered...energy transfer (FRET): This is used to study the interactions between two proteins or between two domains ... has also been used to study protein-protein interactions. In this case, two portions of EGFP are fused... their activity and visualize the effects of alterations to this activity. Learn more about optogenetics...