The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
...for quantitative imaging, Ming Hammond’s group created Spinach2 using site-directed mutagenesis of Spinach...was cloned into bacterial expression vectors to create a library. Bacteria were transformed, and then ...for in vivo studies. Dimerization of Broccoli increases its fluorescence by about 1.8-fold, and may be...for greater contact with its RNA aptamer. This increased interaction between Corn and its small molecule... to TO1-biotin. Two of these variants exhibit increased brightness compared to Mango, and all are photostable...