HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
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Oct. 10, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
... fluorescent protein guide
Find plasmids for subcellular localization
Find fluorescent protein plasmids...Part stable scaffold, part epitope binding region, all fused to a fluorescent protein. “Frankenbody,”...antibodies for tagging purposes. Different antibodies bind different protein sequences called epitopes and ...interest. Antibody based probes, such as antigen-binding fragments (Fabs) (Porter 1959) and single-chain... 1972) are fused to mature fluorophores, and can bind and light up epitope tagged proteins in vivo. These...CDRs, or loops) of an antibody that recognize and bind specific epitopes (Ewert et al., 2004). This scFv...to easily observe the tagged protein upon probe binding in living cells.
In their proof of concept experiment...