The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
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Blog Post
Published
Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
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Other variants of Spinach include Baby Spinach, a miniaturized version of Spinach that retains similar... Hammond’s group created Spinach2 using site-directed mutagenesis of Spinach. In doing so, they identified...was consequently brighter than Spinach.
The initial studies using Spinach2 showed its ability to track RNA...imaging. Bunch of baby spinach, or BoBS, contains tandem repeats of Baby Spinach. It was developed in a...twice as bright as Spinach2 when bound to DFHBI. It’s also smaller than any form of Spinach - only 49 nucleotides...Addgene’s collection.
Green fluorescent aptamers
Spinach and Broccoli and their derivatives are aptamers..., but not quantitative, studies. Additionally, Spinach, the first aptamer identified to bind DFHBI, is...