Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...is covalent, so free dye can be washed away. In addition, labeling contrast can be improved using disulfide-containing...reagents can bind numerous endogenous biomolecules in cells nonspecifically, and they cannot cross cell...the first fluorophore (the donor) is excited, it can transfer energy directly via resonance to the second...30-100 Å, depending on the probes). In fact, FRET can be used to derive a precise physical distance between... fluorophore labeled and that these fluorophores can undergo FRET when they are near each other.
How do...biomolecules each containing multiple binding crevices that can nonspecifically soak up your fluorophore package....delivered to the wrong address in a different city, you can still develop a successful FRET-based assay since...