Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
...recombination, RFP is expressed. Cre can mediate one of two deletions to allow YFP or M-CFP expression; these deletions...inversion. The Brainbow-2.1 construct can express one of four colors (n-GFP, RFP, YFP or M-CFP.) The construct...research? Check out Brainbow plasmids available from Addgene!
Find Brainbow Plasmids @Addgene:
Brainbow 1.0...1.0, 1.1, 2.1 plasmids
Brainbow 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 plasmids
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Transgenic strategies for combinatorial...editing may be the hot new way to manipulate gene expression, but other gene manipulation systems remain valuable...ways to spatially and temporally control gene expression, especially in in vivo models, and new Cre-lox... of Cre-lox. Check out our previous blog post, Plasmids 101: Cre-lox, if you need a quick primer on how...