Phototransformable fluorescent proteins: Future challenges

V Adam, R Berardozzi, M Byrdin… - Current opinion in chemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Phototransformable fluorescent proteins undergo different light-induced
reactions.•These markers are largely used in super-resolution microscopy and …

Fluorescent proteins of the EosFP clade: intriguing marker tools with multiple photoactivation modes for advanced microscopy

K Nienhaus, GU Nienhaus - RSC Chemical Biology, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical fluorescence microscopy has taken center stage in the exploration of biological
structure and dynamics, especially on live specimens, and super-resolution imaging …

Stochastic approach to the molecular counting problem in superresolution microscopy

GC Rollins, JY Shin, C Bustamante… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Superresolution imaging methods—now widely used to characterize biological structures
below the diffraction limit—are poised to reveal in quantitative detail the stoichiometry of …

Green-to-red photoconvertible Dronpa mutant for multimodal super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

B Moeyaert, N Nguyen Bich, E De Zitter, S Rocha… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Advanced imaging techniques crucially depend on the labels used. In this work, we present
the structure-guided design of a fluorescent protein that displays both reversibly …

To twist or not to twist: From chromophore structure to dynamics inside engineered photoconvertible and photoswitchable fluorescent proteins

TD Krueger, L Tang, C Chen, L Zhu, IL Breen… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Green‐to‐red photoconvertible fluorescent proteins (FPs) are vital biomimetic tools for
powerful techniques such as super‐resolution imaging. A unique Kaede‐type FP named the …

Arginine 66 controls dark-state formation in green-to-red photoconvertible fluorescent proteins

R Berardozzi, V Adam, A Martins… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) is a powerful technique to investigate
cellular nanostructures quantitatively and dynamically. However, the use of PALM for …

Targeting ultrafast spectroscopic insights into red fluorescent proteins

TD Krueger, C Chen, C Fang - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Red fluorescent proteins (RFPs) represent an increasingly popular class of genetically
encodable bioprobes and biomarkers that can advance next‐generation breakthroughs …

Capturing excited-state structural snapshots of evolutionary green-to-red photochromic fluorescent proteins

TD Krueger, JN Henderson, IL Breen, L Zhu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Photochromic fluorescent proteins (FPs) have proved to be indispensable luminous probes
for sophisticated and advanced bioimaging techniques. Among them, an interplay between …

Measurement of rapid protein diffusion in the cytoplasm by photo-converted intensity profile expansion

RG Sadovsky, S Brielle, D Kaganovich, JL England - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
The fluorescence microscopy methods presently used to characterize protein motion in cells
infer protein motion from indirect observables, rather than measuring protein motion directly …

Bacterial cytological profiling reveals the mechanism of action of anticancer metal complexes

Y Sun, DK Heidary, Z Zhang, CI Richards… - Molecular …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Target identification and mechanistic studies of cytotoxic agents are challenging processes
that are both time-consuming and costly. Here we describe an approach to mechanism of …