Table I. Fluorescent tags used to mark the various cellular compartments.
Compartment | Fluorescent Tag(s) | Reference |
---|---|---|
ER | pEYFP-ER | CLONTECH Laboratories Inc. |
Golgi apparatus | pECFP-Golgi | Llopis et al., 1998 |
Post-Golgi vesicles | H-EGFP | Rivera et al., 2000 |
Early endosomes | VAMP8-ECFP | Nagamatsu et al., 2001 |
Late endosomes | Rab7-ECFP | Barbero et al., 2002 |
Lysosomes | Synaptotagmin VII-EGFP; LAMP1-EGFP; CD63-EGFP; VAMP7-ECFP; dextrans |
Martinez et al., 2000; Blott et al., 2001 |