FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
...self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-9 and GFP10-11) by flipping a single β-strand of GFP, hence the name FlipGFP. FlipGFP...apoptosis reporter, ZipGFP, which utilized the self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-10 and GFP11) to increase fluorescence... reporters (Zhang et al., 2019).
How does FlipGFP work?
GFP contains 11 β-strands and one central ɑ-helix..., and Drosophila. They treated HeLa cells expressing FlipGFP with staurosporine, which induces apoptosis...Lab used FlipGFP to track the spatiotemporal dynamics of apoptosis during embryo development. GFP fluorescence...diseases and disorders.
You can find the plasmids for FlipGFP and FlipCherry at Addgene.
References
...protein-protein interaction sensor based on tripartite split-GFP association." Scientific reports 3 (2013): 2854. ...