THE UTILITY OF FLUORESCENT IN-VIVO REPORTER GENES IN MOLECULAR CARDIOLOGY

In vivo reporter genes can be used in different ways in molecular card iology. In this paper studies are presented using the green fluorescen t protein and one of its mutants, S65T-GFP, as in vivo reporter genes. With this new molecular tool we studied cell type specificity of the murine ventricular myosin light chain 2 promoter, positive cell identi fication prior to parch clamp procedures, and the use of fluorescence activated cell sorting of transiently transfected mammalian cells. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.