SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 28, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
...protein at higher levels, you risk observing artifacts only present when the protein is at a very high concentration...membrane-targeted CAAX-SunTag was 18-fold brighter than sfGFP! The high SunTag signal allowed them to cut their...transcription factor binding sites in a promoter lead to higher transcriptional activation. Multiple nuclear localization...explosion SUperNova," SunTag can help you turn up the brightness in your fluorescent imaging experiments.
Fluorescent...their laser power by over 80% and still obtain a higher signal-to-noise ratio with a lower photobleaching...mitoNEET-SunTag-GFP. As expected, they obtained bright images of mitochondria without organelle toxicity...to traditional fluorescent proteins
Improved brightness and signal-to-noise ratio
Less chance of phototoxicity...