Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
...localize them to the secretory pathway, a dark pool that is mislocalized to the ER can be detected with...blocked from proceeding through the secretory pathway, and retained in the ER.
FPs have been undeniably powerful... FP fusion with a resident endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein instead localizes to the cytoplasm? Or more...absolute position requirements. For example, a KDEL ER retrieval sequence only functions at the extreme ...potential to interfere with the function of resident ER chaperones and may impact cellular function or possibly...complex-localized fusions from properly exiting the ER and fluorescing (see Figure 2) [5]. When using FPs...compose the secretory pathway, endocytic vesicles, mitochondria, lysosomes or they are secreted into the ...