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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:03Insect Cell Culture Maintenance
- 04:37Insect Cell Transfection
- 07:20Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy
- 09:33Results: Protein Localization is Visualized within Live Insect Cells
- 11:37Conclusion
Nonlytic insect cell expression systems are underutilized for production, cellular trafficking/localization, and recombinant protein functional analysis. Here, we describe methods to generate expression vectors and subsequent transient protein expression in commercially available lepidopteran cell lines. The co-localization of Bemisia tabaci aquaporins with subcellular fluorescent marker proteins is also presented.
