Xanthene, cyanine, oxazine and BODIPY: the four pillars of the fluorophore empire for super-resolution bioimaging

S Samanta, K Lai, F Wu, Y Liu, S Cai, X Yang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the realm of biological research, the invention of super-resolution microscopy (SRM) has
enabled the visualization of ultrafine sub-cellular structures and their functions in live cells at …

Small-molecule fluorescent probes for live-cell super-resolution microscopy

L Wang, MS Frei, A Salim… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool to visualize biomolecules and
cellular structures at the nanometer scale. Employing these techniques in living cells has …

Biomedical applications of copper-free click chemistry: in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo

E Kim, H Koo - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, click chemistry has provided important advances in biomedical research fields.
Particularly, copper-free click chemistry including strain-promoted azide–alkyne …

Stimulated emission depletion microscopy

G Lukinavičius, J Alvelid, R Gerasimaitė… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
In this Primer, we focus on the most recent advancements in stimulated emission depletion
(STED) microscopy, encompassing optics, computational microscopy and probes design …

Bioorthogonally activatable cyanine dye with torsion-induced disaggregation for in vivo tumor imaging

X Zhang, J Gao, Y Tang, J Yu, SS Liew, C Qiao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advancement of bioorthogonal chemistry in molecular optical imaging lies in expanding the
repertoire of fluorophores that can undergo fluorescence signal changes upon …

Fluorescence microscopy—an outline of hardware, biological handling, and fluorophore considerations

SM Hickey, B Ung, C Bader, R Brooks, J Lazniewska… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fluorescence microscopy has become a critical tool for researchers to understand biological
processes at the cellular level. Micrographs from fixed and live-cell imaging procedures …

Conditionally activatable visible-light photocages

M Bojtár, K Németh, F Domahidy, G Knorr… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The proof of concept for conditionally activatable photocages is demonstrated on a new
vinyltetrazine-derivatized coumarin. The tetrazine form is disabled in terms of light-induced …

A general strategy to develop fluorogenic polymethine dyes for bioimaging

A Martin, P Rivera-Fuentes - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Fluorescence imaging is an invaluable tool to study biological processes and further
progress depends on the development of advanced fluorogenic probes that reach …

Fluorogenic probes for super-resolution microscopy

E Kozma, P Kele - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorogenic probes efficiently reduce non-specific background signals, which often results in
highly improved signal-to-noise ratios. Although this implies improved resolution …

Bioorthogonal labeling with tetrazine-dyes for super-resolution microscopy

G Beliu, AJ Kurz, AC Kuhlemann… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic code expansion (GCE) technology allows the specific incorporation of
functionalized noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins. Here, we investigated the …