Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 22, 2019, 2:41 p.m.
...autophagosomes with lysosomes leads to an increase in yellow puncta but a decrease in red puncta.
Find the mRFP-...RFP ratio: a decrease in GFP fluorescence relative to RFP fluorescence suggests an increase in autophagic...flux, while an increase in GFP fluorescence relative to RFP fluorescence suggests a decrease in autophagic...yeast or the lysosome in mammalian cells. This decrease in pH quenches SEP but not DsRed, leading to emission...Therefore, the formation of autophagosomes leads to an increase of yellow puncta (GFF positive/RFP positive), ...fusion of an autophagosome with a lysosome. An increase in autophagy leads to more yellow and red puncta...