Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers
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Blog Post
Published
May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
...and, when they mature, fluoresce red. The ratio of the mature color (red) to the immature color (green ...determination of expression time
The ratio of mature to immature fluorescence from the FP timer is dependent...their knowledge of protein structure and saturation mutagenesis. mK-GO matures from green to red, and the...they predominantly fluoresce one color but slowly mature until they predominantly fluoresce a second color...580 nm) over the course of 18 hours in vitro (see figure 1B in Terskikh et al.) and even displays predictable...linear window for the theoretical timer shown in Figure 1B, you can use the equation fit to this linear... system composed of two separate FPs (one that matures quickly and the other slowly, see Verkhusha et ...