It's difficult to visually follow proteins in the mitochondria when they are also located in the cytosol of the cell. To overcome this problem, Marine Hemmerle and her colleagues developed a tool called "Big Mito Split-GFP" so that a protein is only visible when it is inside mitochondria. Watch Marine's video to learn how it works!
Marine Hemmerle is a PhD student in the lab DyPS (Dynamique et Plasticité des Synthétases) which is part of the IPCB (Institut de Physiologie et Chimie Biologique) at the University of Strasbourg (France).
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