Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
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...strategies such as the bisarsenical dye (Figure 1a) and FAP systems (Figure 1e) are inherently fluorogenic and...biological environments such as live cells and tissues (Figure 1). These flexible strategies give you the best...peptide tag could be used to label proteins in cells (Figure 1a). Other strategies that have been developed ...substrate ligand motif attached to a fluorophore (Figure 1b).
Engineered ligases (e.g., lipoic acid ligase...attachment of a fluorophore ligand to a peptide tag (Figure 1c).
Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–...amino acids can be incorporated into a protein structure and then used with the growing toolbox of bioorthogonal...fluorophore at the specific site of incorporation (Figure 1d).
Fluorogen activating proteins (FAPs) – These...