Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
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...proteins for live cell imaging can be excited many times, thereby producing a large number of emitted photons...number of excitation/emission cycles per unit of time, decreasing the likelihood that a fluorophore will...are excited with very intense light (for a brief time), whereas in widefield imaging fluorophores are ...with relatively low light levels (for a prolonged time). Other illumination strategies, such as 2-photon-excitation...performed that measures fluorescence intensity over time. In order to predict how fluorophores perform in...in ‘real experiments’, it is advisable to perform time-lapse imaging of cells producing the fluorescent...comparing how the fluorescence intensity changes over time, the photostability of the fluorescent proteins ...