Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
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Blog Post
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April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
...may be the hot new way to manipulate gene expression, but other gene manipulation systems remain valuable...important ways to spatially and temporally control gene expression, especially in in vivo models, and new...-2.1 construct can express one of four colors (n-GFP, RFP, YFP or M-CFP.) The construct contains two tandem...ten colors (see table to the right); in various reports, Sanes and Lichtman have observed from 90-160 distinct...mOrange2, jellyfish EGFP, and sea anemone mKate2.) They then successfully generated custom antibodies to...-2.
The general structure of Brainbow-1.0 is retained in Brainbow-3.0, but with mOrange2, EGFP and mKate2...at least six generations.
In addition to the neuronal pThy1-Brainbow constructs, Addgene also has two ...