Fluorescence resonance energy transfer at the single-molecule level

T Ha, J Fei, S Schmid, NK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful spectroscopic method for
measuring distances in the 2–8 nm range. Often, conformational changes and molecular …

Interaction dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins from single-molecule spectroscopy

A Chowdhury, D Nettels… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Many proteins contain large structurally disordered regions or are entirely disordered under
physiological conditions. The functions of these intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) often …

A blind benchmark of analysis tools to infer kinetic rate constants from single-molecule FRET trajectories

M Götz, A Barth, SSR Bohr, R Börner, J Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) is a versatile technique to study the dynamics and function
of biomolecules since it makes nanoscale movements detectable as fluorescence signals …

FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices

E Lerner, A Barth, J Hendrix, B Ambrose, V Birkedal… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) has become a mainstream technique for studying
biomolecular structural dynamics. The rapid and wide adoption of smFRET experiments by …

Fluorescence microscopy: a statistics-optics perspective

M Fazel, KS Grussmayer, B Ferdman, A Radenovic… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Fundamental properties of light unavoidably impose features on images collected using
fluorescence microscopes. Accounting for these features is often critical in quantitatively …

Single-molecule FRET for probing nanoscale biomolecular dynamics

D Nettels, N Galvanetto, MT Ivanović, M Nüesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-molecule spectroscopy is a powerful method for studying the physics of molecular
systems, particularly biomolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. By avoiding …

An alternative framework for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

S Jazani, I Sgouralis, OM Shafraz, S Sivasankar… - Biophysical …, 2019 - cell.com
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a flexible and widely used tool routinely
exploited in vivo. While FCS provides estimates of dynamical quantities, such as diffusion …

[HTML][HTML] Single-photon smFRET. I: Theory and conceptual basis

A Saurabh, M Fazel, M Safar, I Sgouralis, S Pressé - Biophysical Reports, 2023 - cell.com
We present a unified conceptual framework and the associated software package for single-
molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) analysis from single-photon arrivals …

Pitching single-focus confocal data analysis one photon at a time with Bayesian nonparametrics

M Tavakoli, S Jazani, I Sgouralis, OM Shafraz… - Physical review X, 2020 - APS
Fluorescence time traces are used to report on dynamical properties of molecules. The basic
unit of information in these traces is the arrival time of individual photons, which carry …

Resolving molecular heterogeneity with single-molecule centrifugation

Y Luo, J Chang, D Yang, JS Bryan IV… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
For many classes of biomolecules, population-level heterogeneity is an essential aspect of
biological function─ from antibodies produced by the immune system to post-translationally …