Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
... light exposure can also lead to cellular phototoxicity, and experimental success can be affected by both...biologists over the last two decades, but their use can be limited by a few caveats. Since fluorescent proteins...and showed that these three luminescent proteins can be used together in cells. As Nano-lanterns are not...fluorescence, so higher concentrations of the compound can be added to the media. Cellular esterase then converts...optogenetic tools, where light used for excitation can cause unintended activation of the optogenetic system...proteins (FP) require external light activation, you can’t use fluorescence to monitor processes directly affected... physiology in your system.
Optical sectioning cannot be conducted with luminescence imaging since there...