Identifying palmitoylation with a click
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making it a good fusion tag for many proteins. Verkhusha and colleagues performed a mutagenesis screen on the monomeric red fluorescent protein mCherry, to identify red photoactivatable variants. The resulting PAmCherry proteins have many desirable properties, including lack of green fluorescence and high single-molecule brightness, making them suited for two-color photoactivated localization microscopy. Brief Communication p131, Article p153, News and Views p124
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