Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
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Blog Post
...improve the brightness of previous Nano-lanterns by 2-4 fold and permit five-color fluorescent imaging! ...have become indispensable tools for molecular and cell biologists over the last two decades, but their ...light. Long-term light exposure can also lead to cellular phototoxicity, and experimental success can be...quantum yield, and when transiently expressed in cells, generates much less signal than comparable fluorescent...three luminescent proteins can be used together in cells. As Nano-lanterns are not subject to photobleaching...phototoxicity, they successfully imaged multiple subcellular compartments over several minutes using Nano-...concentrations of the compound can be added to the media. Cellular esterase then converts diacetyl coelenterazine-h...