Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
...mouse retina. GFP expression robustly activated the reporter gene TdTomato, whose expression was absent without...reporter expression was induced in ~76% of GFP+ cells, and 100% of DsRed+ cells also expressed GFP. Using.... Cepko lab researcher Jonathan Tang wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the... could use previously established mouse lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just...cells. If GFP could be co-opted to control gene expression, he could then selectively manipulate only GFP-labeled...and rTetR systems such that they activate gene expression from different promoters.
Moving to an in vivo...56-93%. In the converse test, 98% of TdTomato expressing cells were GFP+, indicating a robust, but specific...