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The jellyfish green fluorescent protein: a new tool for studying ion channel expression and function
J Marshall1, R Molloy, G W Moss
1Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.
Neuron
|February 1, 1995
Abstract:
Two methods are described for using the jellyfish green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a reporter gene for ion channel expression. GFP fluorescence can be used to identify the transfected cells, and to estimate the relative levels of ion channel expression, in cotransfection experiments. A GFP-NMDAR1 chimera can be constructed that produces a functional, fluorescent receptor subunit. These methods should facilitate studies of ion channel expression, localization, and processing.