Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
... expression. However, one caveat of FP-protein fusions (FP-chimeras) is that they undergo normal protein...their continuous excitation. By generating PA-FPs fused to intracellular proteins, scientists can track ...as organelle trafficking and dynamics (fission, fusion, etc). For example, by engineering PA-GFP tagged...Youle Lab was able to visualize and quantify the fusion dynamics of mitochondria in healthy and apoptotic... individual organelles shows that mitochondrial fusion is blocked during the Bax activation phase of apoptosis...