Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
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...have become indispensable tools for molecular and cell biologists over the last two decades, but their ...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...Nano-lanterns, Takai et al. continuously imaged cells for about 4 hours!
The latest enhanced Nano-lanterns... al. “Luminescent proteins for high-speed single-cell and whole-body imaging.” Nat Commun. 3 (2012): 1262...light. Long-term light exposure can also lead to cellular phototoxicity, and experimental success can be...phototoxicity, they successfully imaged multiple subcellular compartments over several minutes using Nano-...