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  1. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

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    June 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... Early efforts tested whether or not FP-tubulin fusion proteins could properly form microtubule networks...networks in cells. Other efforts tested whether FP fusions to connexin localized correctly to gap junctions...OSER assay with a number of fluorescent proteins. Fusions of CytERM with mTurquoise2 and dTomato, which are... localization and biological properties of new fusions can be compared with mEGFP or mTurquoise2, which...
  2. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    April 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... cytoplasmic contents. Autophagosomes that have fused with the vacuole or a lysosome are trickier to identify... are degraded or released once an autophagosome fuses with the vacuole or lysosome. Rosella fluorescent...They are connected by a 9 amino acid linker that’s fused to the C-terminus of DsRed.T3. See Table 1 for a...Sargsyan et al. It is also possible to make Rosella fusions and thereby monitor autophagy of your protein of...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    Jan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ... the second type of these GEVIs: a FP-fused rhodopsin. FP-fusion to rhodopsin resulted in electrochromic... Simply put, VSD-based sensors consist of a VSD fused to a single fluorescent protein (FP). This class...imaging.   Figure 1: Ace-mScarlet is a fusion between the voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin...
  4. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ...exact entry for your favorite gene fused to an epitope tag or fusion protein. If your sequencing primer...An alignment omitting repeated regions can be confusing, such as when you attempt to verify the starting...primer was chosen to confirm a tag or fusion protein is in-frame, we recommend using blastx with the "Align...
  5. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ...ectopically expressed in most organisms. Furthermore, fusing FPs to another protein usually does not affect ...and 2) to visualize the localization of the FP (fused to the protein of interest), thus tracking the localization...used to determine the proximity of two proteins fused to the halves of the split FP. This technique is...This may affect the biological function of the FP-fusion protein. Therefore, it is recommended to use monomeric...
  6. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    May 30, 2019, 12:44 p.m.
    ...has focused on transcriptional activation using a fusion to a transcriptional activator such as VP64 (Gilbert...transcriptional activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9 with a protein tag allows for the isolation... DNA fragment (Fujita et al., 2016). 3xFLAG-tag fused to dCas9, along with a biotinylated gRNA, were successfully... (Liu et al., 2017). This system utilizes dCas9 fused to a biotinylation tag expressed on a plasmid, allowing...
  7. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...modular approach combines an interchangeable set of fusogenic and targeting components to reprogram delivery...Modular features of DIRECTED particles where the fusion and targeting components are interchangeable. Image...targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible with fusogens from different viral families and can be used ...transcriptional history of a cell. Lin et al. generated a fusion protein called iPAK4 that assembles into a slow-growing...
  8. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...MagIC-cryo-EM, target proteins (expressed as a GFP fusion in this proof-of-concept study) are captured on...programmable epigenetic editor consisting of dCas9 fused to a DNA methyltransferase — that can drive lasting...silencing, which can be toxic, CHARM uses a cofactor fused to a histone tail to recruit and stimulate the endogenous...multiplexed targets.   Figure 4: CHARM uses a fusion of the DNMT3L cofactor (D3L) with a histone tail...
  9. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    July 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...expression, measured using fluorescent protein fusions In addition to visible light, flow cytometers can...Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? However, fusion proteins tag your protein of interest with a fluorescent...- or C-terminus of the protein. One downside of fusion proteins is that the tag can alter the structure...get around the challenges of fluorescent protein fusions by binding to the protein in its native state.  ...
  10. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...experiments. However, remember that, if you make an FP fusion, you are inserting about 20-25 kDa of protein mass...to this bulky insertion are inevitable. Most FP fusions for FRET studies are at the N- or C-terminus of... protein of interest, resulting in a C-terminal fusion of a tetracysteine tag. In addition, since these...FRET Browse Empty Plasmids to Fluorescent Protein Fusions Check out Our Fluorescent Protein Guide ...
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