Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 6, 2014, 1:07 p.m.
...connection between molecular- and cellular-level events and behavior. It’s a problem that he considers ...change has a particular advantage for observing events taking place inside cells that are on the move,...Methods, the FRET changes of these Twitch sensor variants were optimized by testing various linker configurations...large-scale functional screen in bacteria. Sensor variants were then refined by a secondary screen in rat... than intensity-based readouts.”
Griesbeck also points out that the approach he and his colleagues took...“trick” to the development of additional color variants. This resulted in the construction of redCALWY...redCALWY-1, a red-shifted FRET sensor for zinc using variants of mOrange2 and mCherry as donor and acceptor ...