Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 63(48), p. 7871, 2012
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc32541a
Elsevier, Biophysical Journal, 2(104), p. 340a, 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.1888
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Various biological events including muscle contraction and vesicle transport can be described as a mechanical process. Many of the corresponding proteins are thus required to generate or sense a force. Here we describe a strain-sensitive yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) recombinant that can detect the intramolecular strains these proteins experience.