GUS fusions

[Brian H. Taylor]

Gijs van Rooijen wrote:

> It has been well documented that GUS tolerates protein fusions to its N-terminal
> end. Has anybody out there any experience (or knows of any references), in which
> fusions were made to the C-terminal end of GUS. I would like to know whether
> these fusions still show GUS activity. If not, does anybody know why?
> Thanks in advance,

    One good example of high activity GUS C-terminal fusions is the
work in Jim Carrington's laboratory where potyviral proteins and
their deletion derivatives were fused to GUS to identify nuclear
transport signals (Plant Cell 3: 953-962).



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