Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
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Blog Post
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Aug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...tethered to bring them into close proximity (Figure 1). Formation of the complete FP results in a fluorescent...detected by fluorescence microscopy.
Figure 1: How BiFC works. A split FP (e.g., yellow fluorescent... protein interactions in living cells. Nat Protoc 1:1278–1286. https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2006.201
...Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET). Through the non-radiative transfer for energy between neighboring...Whether BiFC constructs are expressed transiently by transfection or stably impacts the success of BiFC..., kinase signaling, integrin signaling, and transcription factor interactions (Kerppola, 2006). One of...interactions between basic leucine zipper and Rel transcription factors (Hu et al., 2002). This would be more...