When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
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...solution or something in between, you are using a tag with a serious drawback. The standard EGFP plasmid... of a POI. As an investigator, you want a fusion tag to be inert, to not produce artifacts in your experiments...Many thanks to our guest blogger Erik L. Snapp!
Erik Lee Snapp received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology...This post was contributed by guest blogger Erik L. Snapp.
Stop using EGFP/GFP for fusion proteins! Despite...oligomers such as DsRed or high affinity FPs such as TagRFP. Problem 3 can be solved, in most cases, by using...distance runner, gardner, and cook.
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1. Snapp, E.L., et al., Formation of stacked ER cisternae... Resources on the Addgene Blog
Read Professor Snapp's Post on mOX FPs
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