Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
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...Brainbow. Brainbow 1.0 used the fluorophores RFP (red), YFP (yellow), and membrane-tethered CFP (cyan). Brainbow...switches from the default GFP (green) to RFP, CFP, or YFP fluorescence. In Brainbow 2.1, GFP is tagged with...localize to a different area of the cell than CFP and YFP.
The most recent derivation of Brainbow, Brainbow...incorporate a truncated, non-fluorescent form of YFP as the default state of the transgene such that recombination...recombination is necessary to excise the non-fluorescent YFP and activate fluorescence of the downstream OFP, ...can be detected by immunostaining of the truncated YFP.
In Thy1-Brainbow mice, some neurons expressed as...called Zebrabow-GateDest containing an RFP, CFP, and YFP downstream of a ubiquitous promoter. Zebrabow is ...