Engineered coral pigment helps scientists to observe protein movement
Scientists in Southampton, UK, and Ulm and Karlsruhe in Germany have shown that a variant form of a fluorescent protein (FP) originally isolated from a reef coral has excellent properties as a marker protein for super-resolution microscopy in live cells. Their findings have been published online by Nature Methods and will appear in print in the upcoming August issue of that journal.Fluorescent proteins produced by a range of marine animals glow with a rainbow of colors, adding to the visual spectacle of coral reefs. Over recent years, molecular biologists have isolated a number of FPs and their genes, and used them to create genetically engineered variant FPs with particular light-emission characteristics.?Fluorescent pigments from corals and related animals have proved to be invaluable lead structures to produce advanced markers for biomedical research,? said Dr J?Wiedenmann of the University of Southampton?s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton:
Engineered coral pigment helps scientists to observe protein movement
Scientists in Southampton, UK, and Ulm and Karlsruhe in Germany have shown that a variant form of a fluorescent protein (FP) originally isolated from a reef coral has excellent properties as ...
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