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Fluorescent Labeling of COS-7 Expressing SNAP-tag Fusion Proteins for Live Cell Imaging
Published on: May 17, 2010
Turn-on fluorescent probe with visible light excitation for labeling of hexahistidine tagged protein
Mie Kamoto1, Naoki Umezawa, Nobuki Kato
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|March 17, 2009
Abstract:
We report here the development of a novel fluorescein-based probe which shows selective fluorescence enhancement on binding to a hexahistidine-tagged protein. No fluorescence change was observed with untagged protein. This probe is excitable with visible light and is considered to be suitable for use in biological applications.
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