Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...before bleaching. The amount of information one can extract from a biological sample is wholly dependent on...budget, which determines how long and precise we can track individual molecules. Poor photon budgets are a ... couch cushions for spare change, desperate to extract a few more photons from a sample.
Chemical fluorophores...FlAsH, ReAsH) and a short genetically encoded tetracysteine (Cys4) peptide tag could be used to label proteins...fluorophores are making chemical dyes increasingly attractive and accessible to cell biologists—and we are ...