Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m.
...response to blue light. This tool, CRY2clust, was created by adding a 9-residue peptide to the C-terminus...regions. To overcome this issue, Shemesh et. al. created a soma-targeted derivative of the opsin CoChR, ...within the cell. Their Fluorescence fLuctuation INcrease by Contact (FLINC)-based biosensors measure fluctuations...