LV-CAG-GCaMP6f

Product Category: Pre-made recombinant lentivirus; LV-CAG-GCaMP6f; LV-CBA-GCaMP6f; CAG-GCaMP6f Lentivirus

Description: 
GCaMP is a genetically encoded calcium indicator (GECI) and created from a fusion of green fluorescent protein (GFP), calmodulin (CaM), and M13, a peptide sequence from myosin light chain kinase.  When GECI binds Ca2+, the conformational change of GCaMP induces proximity of the GFP parts, eliciting strong GFP fluorescence signal, which allows measuring action potentials and other receptor activation events that trigger Ca2+ influx. The advantage of GECI's are that they can be genetically specified for studies in living organisms.

GCaMP6 is a novel ultra-sensitive format of GCaMP that outperformed other sensors in terms of accuracy and sensitivity in measuring cytosol Ca2+ level.  Mutations in calmodulin part of GCaMP6 created several variants which showed different calcium fluorescence decay rate (fast - GCamP6f, slow - GCaMP6f and medium - GCaMP6m). 

LV-CAG-GCaMP6f is pre-made lentivirus which expresses GCaMP6f under the CAG (also known as CBA) promoter. Ready to use format.

Titer: > 1x10⁹ TU/mL

Selection Antibiotic: None

Purity*: In vivo grade and OK for both in vitro tissue culture infection and in vivo injection

Size: 2 x 25 µL (Std Pack)

Storage Buffer: PBS

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* Concentrated via PEG precipitation followed by ultra-centrifugation at 25000 rpm