Noncytotoxic orange and red/green derivatives of DsRed-Express2 for whole-cell labeling

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Whole-cell labeling is a common application of fluorescent proteins (FPs), but many red and orange FPs exhibit cytotoxicity that limits their use as whole-cell labels. Recently, a tetrameric red FP called DsRed-Express2 was engineere...

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Main Authors: Glick Benjamin S, Bhattacharyya Dibyendu, Strack Rita L, Keenan Robert J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-04-01
Series:BMC Biotechnology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6750/9/32