Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
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Blog Post
Published
April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
...coupling of Cre-lox with FLP-FRT recombination to generate additional recombination events, and the synthesis...and sea anemone mKate2.) They then successfully generated custom antibodies to each of these proteins and...analysis. To achieve even cell labeling, they generated farnesylated derivatives of the fluorescent proteins...previously visible with Brainbow-1 and -2.
The general structure of Brainbow-1.0 is retained in Brainbow...constructs are stably maintained through at least six generations.
In addition to the neuronal pThy1-Brainbow constructs...