My question is pretty general so I don't know if anybody could help me.
Briefly I have overexpressed (in zebrafish trhough a UAS plasmid) a fusion protein created by fusing GFP to the N-terminal of my native protein. The resulted GFP-fusion protein localize correctly to endoplasmic reticulum, but often it makes GFP dots, maybe due to a toxic expressoin. When I analyze the function I'm interested in only in cells that do not present GFP dots, I see an effect as compared to controls that do not express GFP-fusion protein. My question is: can these effects could be due to a aspecific effect?
I ask this because in my past experiments, using the native protein without gfp, I didn't see any effect, but I failed demonstrating protein overexpression by WB and immunoistochemistry.
Which data would you believe in?