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Reporter Fusions

GFP fusion proteins

GFP fusion proteins

A human mesenchymal stem cell. In this cell a microtubule protein is fused to GFP (green) while a histone protein is fused to RFP (red). As you can see the localization of the fused protein can now be determined using fluorescent reporter fusions.

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