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Schematic of Fluorescent Detector

Caption: Schematic of fluorescent detector: When a target protein is folded correctly, "tags" come together so that the dye binds with high affinity and fluoresces brightly; misfolded proteins have low affinity for the dye.

Credit: Schepartz/Nature Chemical Biology

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