Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...challenging to stain intracellular compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must be taken to...target through binding of the molecular species. Administration of these dyes results in direct binding between...enzyme variant that covalently reacts with a small substrate ligand motif attached to a fluorophore or other...advantages to using these self-labeling proteins over traditional fluorescent protein tags, such as high specificity...on a protein, enabling the labeling of protein substrates/peptides and antibodies. Example applications...green, red, and far-red dyes is important for intracellular fluorescence live imaging (Hayashi-Takanaka...fission, fusion, biogenesis, and mitophagy, can be tracked using dyes like Rhodamine 123 (R123) (Liu et al...