Hemicyanine‐based near‐infrared activatable probes for imaging and diagnosis of diseases

Z Zeng, SS Liew, X Wei, K Pu - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular activatable probes with near‐infrared (NIR) fluorescence play a critical role in in
vivo imaging of biomarkers for drug screening and disease diagnosis. With structural …

Highly sensitive and multiplexed protein measurements

L Cohen, DR Walt - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Proteins are involved in many biological processes. Misfolded, truncated, or mutated
proteins as well as over-or underexpressed proteins have been implicated in many …

Visualizing cellular and tissue ultrastructure using Ten-fold Robust Expansion Microscopy (TREx)

HGJ Damstra, B Mohar, M Eddison, A Akhmanova… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a powerful technique to overcome the diffraction limit of light
microscopy that can be applied in both tissues and cells. In ExM, samples are embedded in …

Choose your label wisely: water-soluble fluorophores often interact with lipid bilayers

LD Hughes, RJ Rawle, SG Boxer - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Water-soluble organic fluorophores are widely used as labels in biological systems.
However, in many cases these fluorophores can interact strongly with lipid bilayers …

Single-molecule spectroscopy of protein conformational dynamics in live eukaryotic cells

I König, A Zarrine-Afsar, M Aznauryan, A Soranno… - nAture …, 2015 - nature.com
Single-molecule methods have become widely used for quantifying the conformational
heterogeneity and structural dynamics of biomolecules in vitro. Their application in vivo …

Vibrational imaging of glucose uptake activity in live cells and tissues by stimulated Raman scattering

F Hu, Z Chen, L Zhang, Y Shen, L Wei… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Glucose is a ubiquitous energy source for most living organisms. Its uptake activity closely
reflects cellular metabolic demand in various physiopathological conditions. Extensive …

Multiplex stimulated Raman scattering imaging cytometry reveals lipid-rich protrusions in cancer cells under stress condition

KC Huang, J Li, C Zhang, Y Tan, JX Cheng - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
In situ measurement of cellular metabolites is still a challenge in biology. Conventional
methods, such as mass spectrometry or fluorescence microscopy, would either destroy the …

Role of surfactants in improving release from higher drug loading amorphous solid dispersions

CE Correa-Soto, Y Gao, AS Indulkar… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amorphous solid dispersion formulations (ASD) are increasingly being used as a
formulation strategy to improve bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. One of the limitations …

Ultraviolet nanophotonics enables autofluorescence correlation spectroscopy on label-free proteins with a single tryptophan

P Roy, JB Claude, S Tiwari, A Barulin, J Wenger - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Using the ultraviolet autofluorescence of tryptophan amino acids offers fascinating
perspectives to study single proteins without the drawbacks of fluorescence labeling …

Aptamers with tunable affinity enable single‐molecule tracking and localization of membrane receptors on living cancer cells

P Delcanale, D Porciani, S Pujals… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor cell‐surface markers are usually overexpressed or mutated protein receptors for
which spatiotemporal regulation differs between and within cancers. Single‐molecule …