Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
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Blog Post
Published
May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
...a fluorescent emission wavelength in the green portion of the visible spectrum (hence the name), which...maintaining fluorescence.
The protein structure, first reported in 1996, is an eleven β-sheet-containing “barrel...solvent. This tightly-packed structure explains the importance of the entire GFP protein, which is almost completely...constructing fluorescent fusions.
Transcription Reporter: Placing GFP under the control of a promoter of...a given cell type. This type of transcription reporting was among the earliest uses of GFP.
Fluorescence...protein-protein interactions. In this case, two portions of EGFP are fused to the proteins of interest,...micrometastases in nude mice in cancer studies, act as a reporter for DNA double strand break repair, and to label...