Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
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Blog Post
Published
April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
...the Brainbow mouse neural labeling system. Brainbow-1 and -2 have been further refined to create Brainbow...subsequent recombinations cannot occur.
While the Brainbow-1 system employs Cre-mediated deletion, the design of...antibodies specific to each fluorophore. Third, Brainbow-1 and Brainbow-2 each contained a “default” state; for...dendritic processes not previously visible with Brainbow-1 and -2.
The general structure of Brainbow-1.0 is retained...Rheenen J, Simons BD, Clevers H. Cell. 2010 Oct 1;143(1):134-44. PubMed.
Drosophila Brainbow: a recombinase-based...integration of multiple copies of the construct (about 8 in Brainbow-1.0 mice.) The combinatorial effect...with the goal of overcoming the limitations listed above. First, they screened a variety of fluorescent proteins...