Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
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...CFP, or YFP fluorescence. In Brainbow 2.1, GFP is tagged with a nuclear localization sequence, allowing ...developed a version of Tetbow that incorporates chemical tags instead of XFP to optimize it for tissue clearing...architecture of a fluorescent neuron is visible. Chemical tags are more resistant to tissue clearing methods and... circuits with fluorescent proteins and chemical tags." eLife 7 (2018): e40350. PubMed PMID: 30454553....track single cell dynamics at the organism level has been made possible by tools that allow cells to become... such as neurons in the fly visual system, which has been difficult to study previously (Hadjieconomou...of cells in the intestinal crypt, and since then has become a powerful tool for understanding cell proliferation...