Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...removing excess dye from the sample, which is particularly important for samples where washing is difficult...reason is something called “the photon budget”: each sample has a limited number of fluorophores and each fluorophore...of information one can extract from a biological sample is wholly dependent on the photon budget and pushing...fluorescence microscopy often requires more photons. For example, moving from transient overexpression of protein... desperate to extract a few more photons from a sample.
Chemical fluorophores can be substantially brighter...labeling chemistry easier and more functional in complex biological environments such as live cells and ...brightness of the resulting conjugate, and the complexity of the system. A particularly desirable property...