Stimulated emission depletion microscopy

H Blom, J Widengren - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Despite its short history, diffraction-unlimited fluorescence microscopy techniques have
already made a substantial imprint in the biological sciences. In this review, we describe …

Ultra-stable organic fluorophores for single-molecule research

Q Zheng, MF Juette, S Jockusch… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescence provides a mechanism for achieving contrast in biological imaging that
enables investigations of molecular structure, dynamics, and function at high spatial and …

Photomediated ring contraction of saturated heterocycles

J Jurczyk, MC Lux, D Adpressa, SF Kim, Y Lam… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Saturated heterocycles are found in numerous therapeutics and bioactive natural products
and are abundant in many medicinal and agrochemical compound libraries. To access new …

Structure and immune recognition of trimeric pre-fusion HIV-1 Env

M Pancera, T Zhou, A Druz, IS Georgiev, C Soto… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope (Env) spike, comprising three
gp120 and three gp41 subunits, is a conformational machine that facilitates HIV-1 entry by …

Conformational dynamics of single HIV-1 envelope trimers on the surface of native virions

JB Munro, J Gorman, X Ma, Z Zhou, J Arthos… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The HIV-1 envelope (Env) mediates viral entry into host cells. To enable the direct imaging
of conformational dynamics within Env, we introduced fluorophores into variable regions of …

Associating HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein structures with states on the virus observed by smFRET

M Lu, X Ma, LR Castillo-Menendez, J Gorman… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer mediates cell entry and is conformationally
dynamic,,,,,,–. Imaging by single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Single-molecule imaging reveals that argonaute reshapes the binding properties of its nucleic acid guides

WE Salomon, SM Jolly, MJ Moore, PD Zamore… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Argonaute proteins repress gene expression and defend against foreign nucleic acids using
short RNAs or DNAs to specify the correct target RNA or DNA sequence. We have …

Cyanine dyes in biophysical research: the photophysics of polymethine fluorescent dyes in biomolecular environments

M Levitus, S Ranjit - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2011 - cambridge.org
The breakthroughs in single molecule spectroscopy of the last decade and the recent
advances in super resolution microscopy have boosted the popularity of cyanine dyes in …

Aminoglycoside interactions and impacts on the eukaryotic ribosome

I Prokhorova, RB Altman… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Aminoglycosides are chemically diverse, broad-spectrum antibiotics that target functional
centers within the bacterial ribosome to impact all four principle stages (initiation, elongation …

Photochemical mechanisms of fluorophores employed in single‐molecule localization microscopy

K Kikuchi, LD Adair, J Lin, EJ New… - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decoding cellular processes requires visualization of the spatial distribution and dynamic
interactions of biomolecules. It is therefore not surprising that innovations in imaging …