Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
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...targeting a fluorescent donor to your protein is to hardwire the molecule directly into the protein’s peptide...incorporation of fluorescent probes into protein: hexahistidine-tag-mediated fluorescent labeling with (...during protein translation (Ermolenko et al., 2007). All that is required is that the proteins/nucleic...synthesized target protein molecules contain the donor and, more importantly there is no fluorescence background...resulting from nonspecific donor labeling.
Fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the gold standard for genetically-encoded...