The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
...of 3,5-difluoro-4-hydroxybenzylidene-imidazolinone-2-oxime (DFHO), a fluorophore modified from DsRed. DFHO...occurring regions in the 5’ UTR of mRNA that bind metabolites, leading to conformational changes that control...Spinach-based riboswitches can be used as stable metabolite sensors for imaging in live cells. By placing...placing Spinach downstream of a riboswitch, metabolite binding to the riboswitch instead activates Spinach ...Dimerization of Broccoli increases its fluorescence by about 1.8-fold, and may be a better choice for imaging...modification that reduces nonspecific binding with RNA by about 7x). Mango fluoresces nearly as brightly as Spinach...Additional resources on the Addgene blog
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