Unveiling intracellular phase separation: advances in optical imaging of biomolecular condensates

Y Guo, X Zhang - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Intracellular biomolecular condensates, which form via phase separation, display a highly
organized ultrastructure and complex properties. Recent advances in optical imaging …

Fundamental limits in measuring the anisotropic rotational diffusion of single molecules

W Zhou, T Wu, MD Lew - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024 - ACS Publications
Many biophysical techniques, such as single-molecule fluorescence correlation
spectroscopy, Förster resonance energy transfer, and fluorescence anisotropy, measure …

Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches

O Zhang, MD Lew - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy (SMOLM) builds upon super-resolved
localization microscopy by imaging orientations and rotational dynamics of individual …

[PDF][PDF] Single molecule tracking reveals nanodomains in biomolecular condensates

G Gao, ER Sumrall, NG Walter - bioRxiv, 2024 - academia.edu
Protein-rich biomolecular condensates formed by phase separation1 play a crucial role in
cellular RNA regulation by the selective recruitment and processing of RNA molecules2. The …

6D single-fluorogen orientation-localization microscopy for elucidating the architecture of beta-sheet assemblies and biomolecular condensates

T Wu, W Zhou, JS Rudra, RV Pappu… - … and Spectroscopy IX, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We develop six-dimensional single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy (SMOLM)
to measure the 3D positions and 3D orientations simultaneously of single fluorophores. We …