Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins
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...FPs) offer scientists a simple yet powerful way to tag cellular proteins and investigate protein localization...fusion, etc). For example, by engineering PA-GFP tagged to a mitochondrial matrix protein (mito-PAGFP) ...Markus, and Wei‐Lih Lee. "Photoactivatable GFP tagging cassettes for protein‐tracking studies in the budding...an FP-chimeric protein may be at any one of many stages of synthesis and degradation. For this reason it...reversible photoactivation - and have enabled sophisticated imaging techniques.
Irreversible photoactivation...victoria) GFP (wtGFP) by mutating Threonine 203 to Histidine (T203H) (1). wtGFP normally contains a mixed population...PA-FPs by performing several rounds of random mutagenesis screening for enhanced RFP variants. PA-mCherry...